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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>COMPASSION WITHOUT ACTION IS NOT ENOUGH</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Peter Walton   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1137 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Syrian Arab Red Crescent</span> staff and volunteers help 3.5 million people a month</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When it comes to Syria, the compassion of Australians has been fractured for four years.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our collective heart has been struggling. As with much of the world, we have been inadequate in terms of the overall support provided. Bravo Australia for suddenly reviving. But why has it taken so long? Why has it taken a cold and brutal slap in the face with the image of a <b>refugee</b> child, bereft of life on a beach in Turkey, to wake us up?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">First, we must remember Australia has a proud history as one of the most generous and compassionate nations on earth. When natural disasters strike, from tsunami to bushfires, ­cyclones, floods and earthquakes, Australians donate so quickly that online donation gateways crash. But why is it that Australians ­donate more in one day after a natural disaster than in many years of crisis in Syria?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The answer must start with the fact the crisis in Syria is overwhelmingly complex. Have Australians felt the situation is just too hopeless?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course, governments need much more commitment to resolving the conflict, but while this occurs we cannot ignore the day-to-day impact of one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The human face of the Syria crisis has been largely out of sight and out of mind.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The global heart skipped a beat in shock when a truck was discovered on an Austrian highway packed with decomposing bodies of 71 Syrian children, women and men. Our hearts raced as the tragic photo of the lifeless three-year-old Aylan Kurdi on the Turkish beach coincided with the greatest movement of people in Europe since World War II.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has been wonderful to see so many Europeans throw their arms open with, in recent times, unprecedented compassion. Leading the charge have been the people of Germany, who are lining the streets to welcome at least 800,000 refugees this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hundreds of thousands of refugees have been risking the perilous journey by sea to a safer future in Europe this year. More than 2600 have died trying.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Australia, at times, we seem to focus more attention on the means of transport than we do on the real reasons people risk their lives in pursuit of a safer life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Contemporary Australia is built on compassion. Close to 200,000 people, mainly refugees, were welcomed here in the five years after World War II. A further two million arrived by <b>boat</b> in the next 20 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it was another war and a history-defining photo that imprinted itself on our minds, helping to define further Australia’s humanitarian spirit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The human face in the picture was nine-year-old Kim Phuc, running in a street after an aerial ­napalm attack in the war in Vietnam. It helped catalyse our compassion on the horrors of a major crisis on our doorstep.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Following the war’s end in 1975, Australians opened their arms to the human tide of refugees arriving by <b>boat</b> on our shores. More than 125,000 Vietnamese people would call a compassionate Australia home. It changed the face of our nation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There has been a fresh tide of compassion from Australians of all walks of life. Soon we will welcome 12,000 Syrian refugees. This may be a significant increase, but let’s put it in perspective.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lebanon — a country with a population of 4.5 million — is hosting more than 1.1 million Syrian refugees. Turkey has 1.9 million Syrians fleeing this gruesome war. Refugees are fleeing to Europe because life has become intolerable in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Most refugees live outside the camps, where life is even tougher, with no guarantees of food, water or a place to sleep.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Syrians want to live in Syria. Primarily, this is a crisis taking place in Syria and the region. We must direct our compassion to help Syrians live sustainably, so they can see a future. Millions of children need education now. Millions need blankets and shelter to live comfortably through the coming winters. Millions need basic medical care. We must look beyond the few hundred thousand who are reaching Europe and redouble our efforts in the Middle East.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week’s contribution of $44 million by Australia must be applauded. The world must build on this latest wave of compassion. Yet the <span class="companylink">UN</span> is $2 billion short of the $2.9bn it needs. International Red Cross is tens of millions of dollars under its target. The <span class="companylink">World Food Program</span> recently had to cut one-third of Syrian refugees from its food voucher program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 16 million Syrians need urgent humanitarian assistance. Let’s pause to imagine the scale. It’s entire cities on the move. It’s equivalent to everyone we know, in all our capital cities, on the move at once. It’s our neighbours, friends and family relying on the compassion of others simply to survive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Several agencies are working hard to get aid to those who need it. Just as with floods and fires in Australia, though, it is mainly local communities in Syria that are bearing the load.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement works hand in hand with <span class="companylink">Syrian Arab Red Crescent</span>, an independent, impartial, neutral organisation and the largest provider of humanitarian services in Syria. Crucially, neutrality enables it to cross frontlines to deliver aid to virtually all areas of the country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On average, a staggering 3.5 million people are helped each month by <span class="companylink">Syrian Arab Red Crescent</span> staff and volunteers. They risk their lives every day to deliver aid. They’re the main delivery arm for <span class="companylink">UN</span> and international non-government organisations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We must focus our compassion on the local responders — the families, communities, Red Cross and Red Crescent and other agencies — that are helping people through these toughest of times.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aid in Syria comes with a terrible cost. Tragically, 50 Syrian and Palestinian Red Crescent volunteers have been killed while providing help in Syria. It’s a horrible price to pay for extending a hand to those in need.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is no question the governments of the world have a responsibility to do much more to bring this terrible conflict and suffering to an end.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We must take a long, hard look at what compassion means for our nation. It is time for all Australians — including business leaders, politicians, and community leaders — to turn compassion into action. Now that the world has finally woken up, we must seize this opportunity to find both short-term and lasting solutions to end the suffering for the people of Syria.Peter Walton is the head of international programs at <span class="companylink">Australian Red Cross</span>.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Boat</b> people story to shock</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Desiree Savage   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>320 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Sri Lankan expat hopes to shock and inform with his new play opening at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre on Wednesday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wollongong-based playwright Dhananjaya Karunarathne spent the last six years perfecting the script for A Sri Lankan Tamil <b>Asylum</b> Seeker's Story as Performed by Australian Actors Under the Guidance of a Sinhalese Director.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The work has hit a few snags since its inception including constant change to government policy forcing rewrite after rewrite. While there was a public boycott by a local Sri Lankan community when it was presented in a studio session with the Merrigong Theatre Company last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The thought provoking "black comedy" explores who has the right to tell <b>asylum</b> seekers" stories, and is flagged as being a confronting and searing study in political correctness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The play follows two young white performers as they grapple with the story of a Tamil <b>refugee</b>, his journey to Australia in a <b>boat</b>, and his final meeting in Villawood Detention Centre with a young <b>refugee</b> studies student called Garth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The civil war in Sri Lanka is something I grew up with, and my perspective was shaped by constant exposure to the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict," said Mr Karunarathne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Mr Karunarathne originally moved to our shores 2003 to study at <span class="companylink">University of Wollongong</span> he said he had met many refugees over the years, their stories adding another dimension to his view of the situation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Co-director and Dramaturg David Williams became involved in the project in November 2014, and admitted the script surprised him with its "wit, insight and fearlessness".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The public dialogue around <b>asylum</b> seekers in Australia is very polarised. So there are either people who are activists or advocates, and there are people whose political careers are built on demonizing [<b>asylum</b> seekers]," said Mr Williams. "This play dances a delicate line between the two perspectives."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Enduring cost of ALP’s failure</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Simon Benson National Political Editor  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>888 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MORE than 90 per cent of surveyed refugees granted permanent visas under the previous Labor government had failed to find a job within three to six months, forcing the majority to rely on government welfare to survive, a new report has revealed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite 80 per cent claiming to feel “welcomed by Australia”, the social difficulties they faced were immense, according to the first government study to follow the new wave of humanitarian ­migrants.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost half reported they had never had a job in their lives, and 15 per cent had never attended school in their birth country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost 40 per cent reported not understanding or speaking English, with only 10 per cent having a university degree and just 6 per cent being qualified for a trade. Only 7.8 per cent had qualifications recognised in Australia As a result, only 6 per cent of all those followed in the Building a New Life in Australia (BNLA) report, to be released today by the Department of Social Services, had found a job.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The main source of income for 88 per cent of the refugees at the time of reporting was government payments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Newstart or Youth allowance payments accounted for 71.8 per cent, with 1.8 per cent on the age pension and 1.4 per cent on the Disability Support Pension. A further 19.3 per cent relied on family and parenting-related payments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>REFUGEE</b> CHALLENGE The study highlights the difficulties facing the 12,000 Syrians the government last week announced would be granted permanent visas in the wake of the humanitarian crisis flowing from civil war and terrorism in Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Social Services Minister Scott Morrison said it “highlighted the serious challenges that Australia had always faced when seeking to resettle refugees through the humanitarian entrance”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“What we want is a good settlement outcome where people become part of Australia’s culture, learn the language, go to school and get a job so they can support themselves,” Mr Morrison said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We can’t underestimate the scale of that challenge … and the less control over the selection process, the less control you have over outcome.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When you get this wrong the consequences are generational.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That is why, as we seek to identify and assess and integrate 12,000 refugees into Australia, we are focusing on the persecuted minorities, which are dominated by Christian groups, and will go about the process in a systemic and measured, professional manner.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Where you rush this, where you fail to appreciate the challenges, that is when you reap a bitter harvest.” SURVEY’S FOCUS The study looked at 2399 refugees from over 1500 migrating families who had all been granted permanent visas in 2013 under the former Labor government. They had either arrived or been granted visas three to six months prior to the study being conducted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The study included <b>asylum</b> seekers, <b>boat</b> arrivals and refugees classed as either women at risk, <span class="companylink">UNHRC</span>-identified refugees, and those granted protection under the special humanitarian program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All were from Iran, Afghanistan or Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite the challenges facing refugees in Australia, the majority reported positive experiences with more than 80 per cent saying it was “good” or “very good”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The majority of all those surveyed had also enrolled in English language classes, which would boost their employment prospects.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many refugees granted protection were regarded as having significant mental health problems, such as post-traumatic stress associated with war zones.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than a third assessed their health as fair, poor or very poor, which was ­marginally higher than ­indigenous communities but three times higher than non-indigenous Australians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ANDREW BOLT PAGE 21</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Building a New Life in Australia study of humanitarian migrants A cohort of 2,399 individuals from over 1,500 migrating families was recruited to the Building a New Life in Australia (BNLA) study included offshore arrivals (<span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> identified refugees, Women-at-Risk and Special Humanitarian Programme) and onshore arrivals (<b>boat</b> arrivals and other <b>asylum</b> seekers). All were granted permanent visas in 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Statistics 80%+ said their overall experiences had been 'good' or 'very good' 80% reported feeling welcome in Australia 'always' or 'most of the time' Majority of survey participants had enrolled in English language classes Government services had largely been viewed as helpful</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHAT THE REPORT FOUND 38% reported not understanding spoken English at all prior to arrival 46% have never undertaken paid work in a job (69 per cent of females) 15% never attended school in their lives 10.1% have a university degree while 6% have a trade or technical skill 7.8% have qualifications recognised in Australia 1/3+ completed high school, a trade or university Many participants report significant levels of psychological distress indicating possible mental health problems 88% said government payments were the main source of income followed by a salary at 6.8% 71.8% on Newstart or Youth allowance, 1.8% and 1.4% were on the Age or Disability Pension 19.3% on family and parenting related payments 6% of the cohort had secured jobs at the time of interview 36.7% of the BNLA cohort self-assessed their overall health as fair, poor or very poor 15.8% never received any formal education40% experienced more than one type of financial hardship</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gjob : General Labor Issues | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | nsur : Surveys/Polls | ncat : Content Types</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document DAITEL0020150913eb9e000d4</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-MRCURY0020150913eb9e00010" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b> legal aid in plea for funds</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>EMMA HOPE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>282 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DEMAND for a legal service for refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers is already stretched beyond capacity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>Refugee</b> Legal Service (Tasmania), a not-for-profit service run by volunteers, has been operating about a year.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">RLS president Tom Carr said: “The demand was already increasing prior to the ­announcement by the Premier this week [to give safe haven to up to 500 Syrian refugees].” Mr Carr said those who have temporary protection visas refused and are deported are often at great risk.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Potentially many of them can end up in harm’s way, their lives and livelihoods can be in danger as well as their children and families,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There is a very limited ability to review a decision once it’s made, so they need to ­ensure all the relevant information is included in the first instance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Recently the Immigration Minister lifted the bar on the ability of <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrive by <b>boat</b> to apply for temporary protection visas.” The RLS is running a crowd funding campaign for money to employ a part-time specialist migration agent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Because of the nature of these applications they are not covered by Legal Aid and Federal Government funding ­assistance has been removed, leaving applicants without anyone else to turn to in a legal sense.” Iranian migrant Bahman Aghaei, of South Hobart, has been living in Tasmania for four years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Aghaei studied law in Iran and used a service similar to RSL, saying without it he is unsure his visa application would have been successful.To donate go to: www.indie[http://www.indie] gogo.com/projects/help-us-help-refugees-and-those-seek ing-<b>asylum</b></p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Coalition stirrers must stop rocking the <b>boat</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>678 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SOME Liberal politicians in Canberra are behaving like the slips fieldsmen who spent the first innings with a bird’s eye view of every batting mistake the opposing side made, only to make those very same errors when it is their turn at the crease.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If ever there was a “how not to” manual for government, it would be one which tells the story of the disastrous Rudd and Gillard years – two terms of almost non-stop dysfunction, infighting and wrong policy calls.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Liberals and their Nationals colleagues had a ringside seat and Tony Abbott boasted before the election that, if the Coalition won power, they would be nothing like the tragic-comic Labor team.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two years into the Coalition’s first term, the worst behaviour of the Labor kind is back on display – this time from the Liberals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After a foolish, time-wasting leadership crisis in February, Mr Abbott listened to his back bench and adopted a more inclusive, consulting and considered style.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His response to the Syrian <b>refugee</b> crisis last week was an example of this. He did not rush into a course of action, waiting for an on-the-ground report from Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and then discussing what to do within the national security committee, Cabinet and the party room.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott’s reward for this quite correct action has been a leadership hand grenade thrown into Government trenches a week out from the critical by-election in the West Australian seat of Canning, with the distribution of a “hit-list” of ministers said to be in line for the sack and a roll call of those who would replace them. Nothing could be more calculated to sow dissent, distrust and paranoia in a government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Right on cue, the whispering plotters were back at work, saying a challenge to Mr Abbott’s leadership was “inevitable” and making claims ministers were moving away from him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is difficult to believe but it looks as though some senior Liberals are seeking to ensure there is a big swing against the Government this Saturday. We have not seen this kind of open treachery since the worst days of the Rudd and Gillard wars of 2012 and 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott was stoically refusing to rise to the bait yesterday, saying he would not entertain “Canberra insider gossip”, maintaining his focus on the by-election during a visit to Perth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those Liberals who are rocking the <b>boat</b> should remember where similar behaviour by Labor MPs in the last 12 months or so of the Gillard government got them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are damaging their own side, threatening the very marginal seat holders they pretend to be working for.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are perpetrating a disillusionment with politics among voters which will only deepen the disconnect between those in Canberra and in the Australian community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This kind of instability is also dangerous for our economy. Uncertainty at a national level causes consumers to shut their wallets and purses, businesses to retreat from planning for the future and hiring workers, and general unease among decision makers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With international economic conditions continuing to look weak, we need as much confidence and sure footedness as we can get in Australia. Political shenanigans work against that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott can be rightly proud of his achievements in Government – especially stopping the people smugglers’ boats, ditching Labor’s job-destroying taxes and signing a trifecta of free trade deals – and should tell this positive story at every opportunity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also needs clear air from his party to sharpen his economic message, telling Australians where we are headed economically, what benefits there are in the years ahead and how he intends to fulfil his goals of lower, fairer taxes and stronger growth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We have just 12 months until the next election is due and, for a variety of reasons including self-inflicted wounds, the Government is behind in the polls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is a time when the whole Liberal team should be pushing in the one direction.Any troublemakers should back off.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | auscap : Australian Capital Territory | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020150913eb9e000a2</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150911eb9c0007v" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Inquirer</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shifting dynamic changes the global strategic environment</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GREG SHERIDAN Foreign Editor  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2400 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Syrian <b>refugee</b> crisis has shocked the world, but exposed our unpreparedness</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The world was changed by a single photo — Aylan Kurdi, a toddler lying face down on a Turkish beach, dead after drowning while trying to reach Europe. He was a victim of people-smuggling, a victim of the war in Syria, a victim of the chaos in the Middle East, a victim of the failure of global order.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The image of his body, one among perhaps 300,000 Syrians to die violently in the last few years, shocked and galvanised the world, including Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We made a historic commitment to take 12,000 extra Syrian refugees, at a cost of $700 million over four years, we gave an additional $44m to the <span class="companylink">UN <b>refugee</b> agency</span> and we decided to conduct air strikes against <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> — or <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> — in Syria. Britain and France are on the point of authorising similar military actions in Syria, and several European nations, as well as the US, announced special <b>refugee</b> intakes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the world’s shock also springs from confusion and ignorance. It turns out that Barack Obama’s high-minded, do-nothing, soaringrhetoric, Nobel Prize winning approach to the Middle East is actually just as bloody, or perhaps more bloody, in its consequences than was George W. Bush’s muscular interventionism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Middle East is certainly a bigger mess today than it was when Obama took power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then again, you might say the same thing about Bush — he left the Middle East a bigger mess than he found it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Syria, the centre of the present crisis and the site of a terrible and horrendous war, with an incalculable human cost and many more dead than in Iraq, is the country in the Middle East the US did not intervene in, or even have any influence in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But now the unfolding tragedies of Syria threaten to unravel the already unstable geopolitics of the Middle East, overwhelm Europe socially and economically, draw Washington once more into intimate regional involvement in Arab affairs, accelerate the growth of international terrorism, heighten the searing Sunni/Shia conflict and embroil even distant Australia, whose national interests are at stake, as are those of most Western nations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are six separate but interlinked dynamics rolling out of Syria around the world today which are transforming the global strategic environment. They are: the geo-strategic struggle centred on Syria, the phenomenon of mass people movement originating in Syria, Europe’s specific crisis with these people, the self-defeating, self-loathing and ultimately just plain wrong analysis of the situation among Western intellectuals, the continuing crisis in Arab civilisation and politics and its encounter with modernity, and the tight, sinewy national interests and response of Australia, caught up so heavily in so seemingly distant a set of problems. Take them one by one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">First, geopolitics. Obama made a specific and clear decision to pull back from the Middle East, to reduce American effort there and to reduce its influence. After first declaring his support for the protests in Syria which were part of the Arab spring, and early on declaring that (Syrian dictator Bashar al) “Assad must go”, Obama then decided against making any serious effort to influence the course of the struggle within Syria. The diplomatic priority of his administration has been working on the Israeli/Palestinian dispute, and then the Iranian nuclear deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has got absolutely nothing of any use out of either effort while Syria and much of the Middle East have slid into turmoil, a turmoil which reaches out to affect the West.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Obama pulled out US troops from Iraq prematurely. The Middle East, and the world, is paying a heavy price for Obama’s decisions. This is what the world looks like when American influence is in decline: catastrophic humanitarian disaster, vast <b>refugee</b> flows and distant allies like Australia trying to make up the slack of failing American effort.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Middle East is racked by contending conflicts. Underlying everything is the Sunni/Shia divide. In Syria, Assad’s regime is based on the Alawites, who are religious cousins of the Shia. The majority of Syria is Sunni. In Iraq, the majority of the population is Shia, and the oppressed minority is Sunni. This conflict plays out in one way or another across the Arab Gulf nations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The second great Middle East conflict is ideological. In 14 years since the 9/11 attacks al-Qa’ida and its offshoots, most notably <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>, have been extraordinarily successful in establishing their paradigm within Muslim populations in North Africa and the Middle East. A small minority accepts the call to jihadism in its most violent form. But a much larger population accepts the basic paranoid narrative that Islam’s problems arise from Western persecution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The West, especially the US, was naive in supporting the Arab spring to the extent of conniving in the overthrow of stable governments. The Arab spring was quickly taken over by the Islamists. In Libya, the West intervened militarily to help oust Muammar Gaddafi. This was strongly supported by Australia’s foreign minister, Kevin Rudd, and the defence minister, Stephen Smith (and by this writer, let me add). It was a grave mistake. Libya has imploded and is now run by jihadist and tribal war lords. Much of its national armoury has found its way into al-Qa’ida and <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> hands and Libya itself is generating huge numbers of people trying to travel to Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Abbott surely reflected a new, realist Western strategic objective for the Middle East this week. In what might be termed the Abbott Doctrine, he said: “What we want throughout the Middle East are governments that do not commit genocide against their own people, nor permit terrorism against ours.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“What we’re working towards is not an attempt to build a shining city on a hill. This is not an attempt to build a liberal pluralist market democracy overnight in the Middle East. That’s been tried and it didn’t magnificently succeed.” Abbott is right in these judgments and he emerges as one of the West’s most hard headed, strategically clear and effective ­national leaders. Australia is the second biggest contributor to the US-led military coalition in Iraq. Abbott has made, in per capita terms, by far the largest commitment to resettling refugees of any country other than one which cannot control the flow of people ­directly over its borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The real strategic purpose of Abbott’s actions is to encourage the Americans to do more. It is only that way, as retired general Jim Molan argues, that Australia can have a strategic impact. And in truth that is normally the case in Australia’s international actions, that one of our chief sources of global influence is that we are an intimate ally of the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Obama needs to be much stronger in the Middle East but he needs to adopt Abbott’s strategically limited ambitions. Western liberalism is no longer a viable project for the Middle East. The best and most effective Western intervention is to help an existing political and social structure to deal with security and economic challenges.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Syria and Iraq, the populations have disaggregated themselves into Sunni, Shia and Kurdish constituent parts. It would be better if Western policy picked champions to help within each entity, and accepted the de facto fragmentation and partition of those countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> is of particular ­interest to the West not only because of its inhumanity, but because it attacks the west. Before the Arab spring, Assad was not an especially brutal dictator. His regime has behaved with appalling savagery during the civil war but if his regime collapses there will be even more terrible chaos and very likely a wholesale slaughter of the Alawite population.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Removing Assad no longer seems to be a serious objective of Washington policy. For the West, the point is not whether Assad stays or goes, but that some non-IS and non-al-Qa’ida leadership emerge among the Sunnis, and that some negotiation and ceasefire occur between the Sunni and Alawite dominated parts of Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The population movements generated by the breakdown across North Africa and the Middle East are enormous. Perhaps four million people have fled from Syria alone. The one really devastating criticism of Europe and the West is that radically insufficient funding has been given to the camps and other arrangements set up to house these people in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. These three nations don’t want the displaced Syrians to stay permanently. But if Europe does not want them to travel to Europe, then they should make decent provision for them in those countries of first <b>asylum</b>. If there is a criticism of Abbott’s package this week, it is that $44 million for the <b>refugee</b> camps is too little.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there is Europe’s very specific crisis. Almost all the people movements of the last few weeks have been secondary movements, that is, not of people directly fleeing persecution but, having gained some safety in nations like Turkey, deciding to move on to Europe. Aylan Kurdi and his drowned brother and mother had been, with their father, on a people-smuggler’s <b>boat</b> and had been living in Turkey, receiving money from relatives in Canada and the father getting some paid work. There was even a report, unconfirmed, that Aylan’s father was involved in the people smuggling business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No one can blame them for seeking a better life, but no country, in Europe or anywhere else, is obliged to accept an unlimited number of people seeking a better life economically. There are tens of millions, indeed probably hundreds of millions, of people around the world who would like to live in Europe. In time, it will be clear that Europe cannot absorb them all The dangers of this spiralling all wildly out of control are severe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Europeans are caught between two conflicting emotions: compassion, and the desire to control their borders and decide who comes into their countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Europe has several specific structural obstacles to finding an effective way to deal with this sudden population flood.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The EU internal freedom of movement conflicts with its members’ divergent external border policies and national immigration policies for non-EU immigrants. It is akin to the contradiction in having a common currency without a political union, that is a common currency but separate national budgets and separate national debts. It’s a structural contradiction guaranteeing policy failure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because there is freedom of movement within Europe, would be immigrants need only find the weakest external point in any European nation and they are in, all then to head to Germany or France or Britain.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Further, Europe has absolutely no capacity for sending anybody back who does not qualify as a genuine <b>refugee</b>. Countless books and papers detail how easy it is in any event to scam the <b>refugee</b> assessment process, but even if an applicant fails, they are virtually never sent back. Eventually they get European welfare payments. This is an enormous incentive just to show up.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The welfare system and European labour laws are themselves another massive structural problem for the Europeans in dealing with North African and Middle Eastern <b>asylum</b>-seekers. The welfare system acts as exactly the wrong incentive for immigrants. And the over-regulated labour laws mean that entry level jobs, especially low skilled jobs, are ­extremely scarce.Germany talks of processing 800,000 Syrians this year and distributing them around Europe. If this goes ahead millions more will follow. In Europe’s post-industrial, high wage, highly regulated, high tech economies, where on Earth will millions of unskilled migrants with little or no European language work? And how will Eurorpe’s chronic budget crisis cope with this massively increased welfare bill?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The lesson of recent years is that no work, even with generous welfare payments, breeds coruscating social alienation. Two books are essential reading for understanding Europe’s crisis on this front.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One is Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, by Christopher Caldwell, which shows how systematically Europe’s immigration rules are scammed and how poor the long-term economic outcomes have been. The other is The French Intifada by Andrew Hussey, which shows how this alienation becomes a hatred of France itself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Caldwell and Hussey are unusual scholars in that they look at the evidence rather than like most Western intellectuals just accepting a pre-cooked narrative that Western society is somehow to blame for all these problems in the Middle East.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An Australian version of this demented Western response was evident this week in the ludicrous argument that to focus on the Christian minority in the 12,000 extra places we take would be somehow wicked and even contribute to the alienation of Muslims within Australians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thousands, probably tens of thousands, of Muslims have come to Australia as refugees, hundreds of thousands as immigrants. we are allowed to focus on the suffering and plight of any Middle Eastern group, or indeed any ethnic minority in the Middle East, except Christians. When we supported actions to save the Yazidis on the mountain from slaughter by IS, no one said it was a racist or sectarian action. The persecution, murder and ethnic and religious cleansing of the Middle East’s Christians is one of the great and terrible stories of our time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But because Christianity is associated with the West, a certain kind of faux intellectual mind sees any action to help Christians as some kind of act of Western ­hegemony. This is political correctness and ideological nuttiness gone mad.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not only that, the government is perfectly entitled to choose some refugees who it thinks will have a good chance of settling well in Australia. As the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fischer, ­argued, Syrian Christians have close connections with Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Similarly, very few Western intellectuals wanted to reflect on how much all of these events represent a continuing crisis for the Arab world in its politics, and its encounter with modernity.In all this, Abbott has acted to protect Australia’s national interests, give expression to our values and make a contribution to solving the root cause of the problem: the conflicts within Syria and Iraq. It’s a serious example of Australian leadership internationally.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gerard Henderson </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is not a matter of religious competition but, rather, of survival</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott haters are in full voice again following the drowning of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian Kurd from the town of Kobane near the Syria-Turkey border.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The case against the Prime Minister was packaged by cartoonist David Pope in last Saturday’s Canberra Times. He drew a picture of the Turkish soldier carrying Aylan’s body from the sea and being told by Tony Abbott, dressed in lifesaving cap and swimmers with an Australian flag as a cape: “If only you’d kept them safe by towing them back to Syria.” In other words, it’s all Abbott’s fault. Pope linked the tragedy of the flight of Syrians from the shocking civil war taking place in that country with Australia’s “stop the boats” policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One problem with the cartoon is that the Abbott government is not towing <b>asylum</b>-seekers back to their countries of origin but to nations where they already have sought refuge — Indonesia, for example.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The unfashionable fact is that the Coalition’s “stop the boats” policy has worked in stopping drownings. More than 1000 children, women and men lost their lives at sea during the time of the previous Labor government. On the available evidence, there have been no drownings since the Abbott government came to office. Moreover, people-smuggling is no longer a profitable industry around Australia’s shores.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The other problem with Pope’s cartoon turns on an inconvenient truth. Aylan’s mother and brother (who also drowned) and his father (who survived) did not set out from Syria. Rather, Abdullah Kurdi engaged a people-smuggler in Turkey, where the family had resided for three years, to take him and his family to Greece. In other words, this is a secondary movement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The full details of the drownings were reported in The Wall Street Journal on September 3. Moreover, Abdullah Kurdi took the bodies of his wife, Rehan, and children back to Kobane for burial. This suggests Aylan’s father did not have a genuine fear of persecution in Syria since refugees are not in a habit of returning to the place from which they have recently fled, even if to bury relatives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The understandable emotion resulting from Aylan’s tragic death has led to a closing down of debate. Liberal senator Cory Bernardi has been criticised — by Coalition, Labor and Greens politicians alike — for stating the Kurdi family was not fleeing Syria when the people-smuggling <b>boat</b> in which they were travelling sank off a Turkish beach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Currently it’s a matter of “don’t talk about The Wall Street Journal report”. But it’s fashionable to quote from the recent <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> editorial that castigated the Abbott government’s policy on <b>asylum</b>-seekers while failing to mention the Obama administration has not indicated it will accept refugees from the Syrian civil war.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a typically pompous performance on the ABC’s Q&A last Monday, Australian-born human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson declared that if “Australia doesn’t step up, we (will) get another editorial in The <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> saying that Australians are a mean and miserable race … it’s terribly damaging”. Robertson went on to state “it was the Hawke government that put little children behind barbed wire at Woomera”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Robertson were the expert on <b>asylum</b>-seekers he presents himself to be, he would understand it was the Keating Labor government that began mandatory detention in Australia. Robertson was not corrected by Q&A presenter Tony Jones.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, on a per capita basis, Australia’s <b>refugee</b> and humanitarian intake is among the most generous in the world. Moreover, unlike Obama, Abbott has announced Australia will substantially increase the number of Syrian <b>asylum</b>-seekers welcomed into the country. As a host nation, Australia is entitled to give priority to the <b>asylum</b>-seekers it chooses to accept.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Controversy emerged earlier in the week when Anthony Fisher, the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, told The Australian’s Tess Livingstone many Syrian Christians who were being persecuted “have relatives and a cultural affinity to Australia and we should be honouring those ties and connections”. On Tuesday, the Archdiocese of Sydney put out a written statement on this issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On ABC Radio 774 on Tuesday, presenter Jon Faine implicitly criticised Fisher’s stance by suggesting the crisis should not be “a matter of religious comp­etition”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This misses the point. Jews have already been driven out of most areas of the Middle East. In recent years, Christians are ex­periencing a similar phenomenon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last Monday, Egypt-born scholar Samuel Tadros, who works at the <span class="companylink">Hudson Institute</span> in Washington, DC, addressed the <span class="companylink">Sydney Institute</span>. Asked about the future of Christians in the Middle East, he responded that it was very grim.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull have acknow­ledged, Muslims — whether Sunni or Shia — will be able to return to their home nations when the conflicts in the region dissipate. But Christians who have fled persecution from oppressive governments or non-state murderous entities such as the so-called ­<span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> — <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> — are unlikely to have a country in the Middle East they can again call home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is not a matter of religious competition but, rather, of survival. Apart from Israel, the nations of the Middle East are heading — intentionally or otherwise — towards becoming Christian  and Jewish-free zones. Jews have an automatic right to settle in Israel. Arab Christians — Orthodox, Catholic and more besides — increasingly will need to seek refuge in Western nations, including Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the second half of the 1970s, Malcolm Fraser’s Coalition government took thousands of Lebanese escaping Lebanon’s civil war. While not strictly refugees, they were given special <b>refugee</b> status. As it turned out, the overwhelming majority of Lebanese who settled in Australia at the time were Muslim — Sunni and Shia. In time, some returned to Lebanon on a permanent or temporary basis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since it is unlikely Christians fleeing the Middle East will ever feel safe to return to the lands of their birth, it makes sense for Australia to give them special consideration. This is not a matter of competition but survival.Gerard Henderson is executive director of the Sydney Institute. His Media Watch Dog blog can be found at theaustralian.com.au.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politics An ebullient Abbott has been buoyed by the ‘big-hearted’ response to his Syria decision - THE NATION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Flashback. It's late March, 2014, and Tony Abbott is in Port Moresby, standing beside his PNG counterpart Peter O'Neill, one month after an Iranian <b>asylum</b> seeker was murdered during violent clashes at the Manus Island detention centre.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">O'Neill speaks first to reporters, saying he is looking forward to receiving the outcome of investigations into Reza Barati's death, and predicting that the first of the <b>asylum</b> seekers found to be refugees will be resettled in his country in the coming weeks. Pre-empting the processing of their claims for <b>refugee</b> status, he declares that "a good majority of them are economic refugees, they are not genuine refugees, so as such they will be sent back to their country of origin".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott responds by thanking O'Neill for promising to "stay the course" with the detention centre and expressing his gratitude that the resettlement process will begin within two or three months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fast forward 18 months. An ebullient Abbott arrives at Port Moresby for his third visit to the city in his two years as Prime Minister, buoyed by the "big-hearted, generous response" of the Australian people to his government's decision to accept 12,000 refugees from the Syrian conflict.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For weeks, even months, Abbott has been under siege, his government well behind in the polls, his approval ratings in the basement, his ministry leaking like a colander and public debate dominated first by Bronwyn Bishop's wanton excess and then by conflict-of-interest allegations against Dyson Heydon, the man his government chose to probe union corruption.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now, days out from the Canning byelection that could decide whether he leads the government into next year's election, Abbott appears to be on a high, satisfied that his response to the humanitarian crisis stemming from the flow of Syrian and Iraqi refugees into Europe is in sync with the mood of the people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Before addressing reporters ahead of a day of talks on climate change that ends with Pacific Island leaders agreeing to disagree on whether more ambitious targets are required, Abbott meets O'Neill and offers his thanks for PNG's assistance in processing "illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Clearly, he disagrees with Angelika Neuwirth, the Austrian woman who travelled into Hungary to drive <b>asylum</b> seekers to Vienna and told the ABC this week: "We are all human and no one is illegal. I think this is my message."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another Manus Island detainee has died since Barati's murder, when a cut foot became infected and developed into severe septicaemia, but not one of the almost 1000 <b>asylum</b> seekers on the island has been resettled. About 40 who have <b>refugee</b> status remain at a transit centre, denied work rights or freedom of movement. No one has been convicted over the violence in February last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I ask Abbott what message he has for those still in detention on Manus Island, especially those who fled the conflict in Syria and Iraq, he relishes the opportunity to respond.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It is good you ask that question, Michael, because what we are doing is sending our immigration teams to the region to ensure that people who have been displaced are given the opportunity of permanent resettlement in Australia - people from persecuted minorities who will never have any realistic chance of going back," he begins. "There is a world of difference between people in that situation and people who have done a deal with people smugglers to go way beyond the country of first <b>asylum</b>."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So, while a fortunate 12,000 living on the borders of Syria and northern Iraq will be given the chance of a new life in Australia, those who paid for their passage on rickety boats from Indonesia to Christmas Island after fleeing war and persecution are punished in order to deter others from coming the "wrong way".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The logic is simple and, in isolation, compelling: Australia will not do anything that offers the most tacit, indirect or qualified acceptance that people in desperate situations will do whatever they can to get to safety, including paying third parties for passage. Otherwise, the argument goes, the boats will start coming again, along with the deaths at sea. Labor agrees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the problem is twofold. If all other countries adopted the same approach, the humanitarian crisis in Europe would escalate exponentially; and those on Manus and Nauru are left in a perpetual mind-destroying limbo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When O'Neill was pressed this week on the plight of those on Manus, he pleaded for patience and said the first resettlements would go ahead before the end of the year. "You must realise that we have communities with over 800 different languages and a thousand different unique tribes, so it's not as easy as one would think," he said. This is one reason PNG is such an inappropriate place to detain and notionally resettle refugees from the other side of the world. It is a country facing all manner of challenges, from unemployment to infant mortality and family violence; a place of extremes in natural beauty and endemic poverty; impulsive violence and instinctive generosity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I experienced the latter two qualities in the space of 30 minutes this week after attending the opening of the Pacific Islands Forum at a sports centre 15 minutes drive from my hotel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two colleagues offered me and another journalist a lift back to our hotel in their hired four-wheel drive. All was going smoothly until we took a wrong turn and found ourselves in an area visitors should avoid. Suddenly, several 44-gallon drums blocked our path and a gang of young men was running towards us, wielding clubs and other weapons and throwing rocks. Instinctively, Mick, the driver, reversed at speed as a rock obliterated the side mirror and a club almost shattered the window, centimetres from his face, damaging the frame instead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Relief turned to despair when he powered down a road that turned out to be a dead end. It felt like we had been cornered by a great white shark. "They've got us," said my colleague in the back seat. "Not yet," said Mick, reversing at speed back towards our attackers and their missiles. We blew a tyre as we reversed down that road, but managed to escape. Some kind soul had moved one of the 44-gallon drums. Our vehicle came to stop on a main road, when the tyre was reduced to a shredded mess of metal and rubber.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Enter Jeremiah, an off-duty cop who pulled up in a utility in jeans and a green T-shirt and proceeded to remove what was left of the tyre and help us with the spare. When a group of young men approached from what he said was a bad area, he told us not to worry. He had a M16 rifle in the back seat. Before he left us, he apologised that we had endured such an ordeal in his city.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Friday, I flew to Manus, hoping to visit one of those who witnessed Barati's murder and who remains in the detention centre, more than two years after fleeing his country. He knows it won't be permitted, and messaged me: "Please later tell me how Manus like because the only thing I see are fences. I heard it's a very beautiful Island."</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>429 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gold Coast Bulletin</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GCBULL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GoldCoast</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>56</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Government’s policy on ­refugees and Bill Shorten’s ­attempt to neutralise the <b>boat</b> ­people issue by concurring is ­politics at its most heinous.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To capitulate to the mob on a complex global problem involving human beings’ courageous and desperate attempts, through no fault of their own, in seeking a ­better life for their families is the most shameful episode in ­Australian political history.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The saving of lives mantra is a furphy. It is a heartless pathetic rationalisation which makes no ­realistic sense.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These people have travelled hard and far and when in our vicinity we turn them back. Isn’t there more chance on a spiritless emotional return for fatalities to occur?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CARL PORTER, Southport</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I HAVE heard that the Gulf states of UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have taken virtually no refugees. Is this true?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If so, our media and the ­Australian Government should be loudly calling for them to take their fair share.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After all, they are very rich Muslim countries and it’s about time they did their part.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jennifer Horsburgh, Elanora</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THIS so-called “<b>refugee</b> crisis” is just another media beat-up and is done nothing whatsoever to solve any perceived problem.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Why are all those fit young men running away instead of staying to fight for their country?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Why are they becoming so ­aggressive and demanding?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What about all the people here who are in need of assistance and are homeless, and where is the extra money coming from?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We will just end up with more debt we can’t afford and people who don’t integrate and will end up being a drain on our society.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This targeted bombing campaign is a complete waste of time and money and won’t solve the problem. We lost in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan and we will lose again here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This problem will be solved in the not to distant future but not in the way most of you expect or can imagine – suffice to say it won’t be pretty to put it mildly!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lindon Litchfield, Southport</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SO, TARA Brown goes to the cop shop and they can’t do anything? The police couldn’t confront this bloke and at least let him know they were on to him. They couldn’t point Tara to a shelter?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No, too busy pinging kids for not wearing a bike helmet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is a disgrace!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She was obviously desperate and went to the people who should help her and she got nothing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I’m mad as hell about this.Pelko, Gold Coast</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Claims dead boy’s father a smuggler</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS & BEN MCCLELLAN   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE father of the three-year-old boy whose lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach, rocking the whole world to its core, has been accused of being a people smuggler who captained the fateful voyage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A woman who lost two of her three children on the vessel last night made the stunning claims to Network Ten via her cousin who lives in Sydney.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The image of Aylan Kurdi’s dead body was the catalyst for Australia to accept 12,000 Syrian refugees who are fleeing persecution in their homeland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was claimed last night that his ­father Abdullah was a people smuggler who captained the dodgy <b>boat</b> for its entire voyage, capsizing in heavy seas and killing at least 12 people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Iraq-based Zainab Abbas, via her Sydney-based cousin Lara Tahseen, told Ten News she paid $10,000 for the voyage and Aylan’s father was in charge of the <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He was a smuggler, yes, he was the one driving the <b>boat</b>,’’ she said. She claimed a separate people smuggler to whom they paid the money had told them the captain was taking his own children on the voyage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He said ‘don’t worry, the captain of the <b>boat</b>, the driver, is going to bring his two kids and his wife,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The woman claimed the <b>boat</b> was travelling faster than its capabilities and had too many desperate <b>asylum</b> seekers on board. “He was going crazy, like speed,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turkish authorities have charged four men over the incident, and three have been refused bail. Mr Kurdi was not one of those charged.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Kurdi has claimed he did steer the <b>boat</b>, but only after the captain ­allegedly panicked in large seas and jumped overboard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I took over and started steering,” he said. “The waves were so high and the <b>boat</b> flipped. I took my wife and my kids in my arms and I realised they were all dead.” However, last night Ms Tahseen told The Saturday <span class="companylink">Telegraph</span> her cousin told her Mr Kurdi was definitely at the helm all the time: “He was the one driving the <b>boat</b> right from the start.” Her cousin told her she was at the back of the <b>boat</b> with the two children who died, Haider, 9, and Zanab, 11, while her husband Ahmed Hadi was with their youngest daughter Rawan at the front when the <b>boat</b> flipped.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian government was not able to confirm the woman’s allegations last night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Abbas is still in Iraq and wants to be part of the intake of 12,000 people who will be granted permanent residency in Australia. The first intake could arrive by Christmas.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Sharp contrast between our very best and worst instincts</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Paul Kelly Editor-at-Large   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1562 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So this is how Australia now works — we can agree over a week on a historic intake of 12,000 Syrian refugees to arrive permanently, but our political system is mired in a destructive fear campaign over a small increase in temporary ­Chinese workers coming to this country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This contrast reveals the best and worst of Australia. It has been on vivid display this week. The key to grasping this bizarre juxtaposition lies in an elementary reality: it is about politics and power.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The foundation for the Abbott government policy on Syrian entry was the Australian tradition of offshore <b>refugee</b> acceptance, ready settlement services tied to a large annual humanitarian program of 13,750 and rising, and the fact halting <b>boat</b> arrivals had created the scope and conditions for the Syrian intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is proof of the known nexus: stopping the boats is the condition for a significant and humane offshore <b>refugee</b> program. This is the moral justification for border protection policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is inconceivable that a Coalition or Labor government would have authorised anything like 12,000 Syrian refugees if the <b>boat</b> arrivals were still running at 2012 or 2013 levels. The politics would have made this completely impossible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten ended up in the same bipartisan position on Syria testifies to the political settlement now grudgingly reached on <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy after so many years of Coalition-Labor rancour. This is not to deny the obvious search for political advantage throughout the week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In per capita terms, Australia’s decision runs far ahead of Britain, France or the US. It has settled 8000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees during the past two years and announced another 12,000 in addition to the present humanitarian intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nothing better illustrates the transformation of <b>asylum</b>-seeker politics than the comment by opposition immigration spokesman Richard Marles, who dismissed outright the demands that Syrian <b>boat</b> arrivals on Manus Island and Nauru should be “treated equally” as offshore Syrian refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Marles said, reopening the Java-Christmas Island route would be “a bad thing” on every count.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That the Greens and Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs called for such equality is entirely predictable, its effect being to unravel current policy and add to the net levels of human misery.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet the issue that dominated parliament was China, not Syria. In contrast to agreement that delivered a major advance on Syria, political disagreement is doing long-run damage to Australia’s engagement with China.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The key to the Coalition-Labor brawl that has left so many people gobsmacked is simple: it is about trade union power and sway inside the Labor Party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ALP and the unions will not accept the labour market provisions related to the China-Australia free-trade agreement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This issue is now heading for a nasty and unpredictable showdown at the 2016 election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since people movement is about numbers, here are some to consider. The number of Chinese temporary workers the FTA removes from labour market testing, in the most recent nine-month period, is 269 workers. They constitute 0.7 per cent of a rapidly falling 457 visa program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The number of Chinese workers in the same period who would be exempt from the mandatory skills exam is 15 visa holders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In relation to the investor facilitation agreements under current ministerial discretion, a Labor government has every power it needs to achieve every end it seeks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor is yet to finalise its position. The best bets are that it will go to the election seeking to renegotiate the FTA, legislate the labour market tests it demands and, if its current statements are any guide, withdraw concessions made to Chinese workers by the Abbott government. It would be an explosive campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The lessons from this showdown are considerable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has been kidding itself about its Asian engagement beyond a bulk resources trade. The essence of the ALP-union stance is the need for a more protectionist labour market arrangement in the teeth of closer economic integration with China.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The combination of the Abbott government’s alarm about Chinese investment and Labor’s alarm about Chinese temporary workers suggests that Australia’s blueprints about the coming ­glorious “Asian century” face serious obstacles in the nation’s power structures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is those structures that authorise Syrian entry but baulk at temporary Chinese workers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This prompts the question: where are the great heroes of Asian engagement? Where are the public figures who told us for a generation and a half this was our national mission, the essence of our future?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Where are the think tanks, the academics, the community leaders? Many ALP past and present leaders have spoken out against their party, notably Bob Hawke, Bob Carr and state leaders. That is impressive and heartening.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In truth, however, the public spaces have been largely vacant, testimony to the intellectually weak country that Australia has become.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The other fact that hardly sees daylight in this debate is that 457 visa entry is tough and getting tougher. The fear campaign run by the unions and Labor is yet to be justified by tangible arguments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The political point is obvious: that Labor is prepared to leave a threat to the FTA on the table to maximise leverage for the labour market changes it wants reveals its extraordinary indebtedness to the unions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This week in a long interview on Sky News with David Speers, opposition trade and investment spokeswoman Penny Wong left the threat on the table.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked four times by Speers if Labor, ultimately, would vote down the deal, Wong dodged the issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is about Labor’s negotiating position. It is a tactic. In the end, it will not vote down the FTA. But Shorten and Wong want to show the unions they are serious and they want a negotiation to extract concessions from Abbott as the price for passing the deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Abbott denies them — and it seems he is not for turning — this conflict, after the passage of the FTA, will be transferred to the election campaign, where the ALP-union assault will be fierce.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wong says Labor is not asking Abbott and Trade Minister Andrew Robb to return to Beijing to renegotiate the deal. That would be untenable. Instead Labor wants to “build safeguards around the existing agreement”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The problem, however, is that Labor, with one exception, has not explained what safeguards it wants and what safeguards are feasible. The devil will be the detail.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The exception concerns the IFAs that offer sponsorship of lower-skilled categories of temporary Chinese workers. Labor dislikes the lowering of the threshold from $2 billion to $150 million for such projects but will tolerate this.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wong’s main demand, however, is that the existing policy requiring companies to show evidence they have tested for Australian job applicants be incorporated into legislation. Why? It’s simple. As Wong says, “We don’t trust Tony Abbott.” Hence Labor wants the guarantee in law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has not spelled out publicly how it plans to rectify its two other objections — the abolition of labour market testing in the FTA that applies to Chinese trades workers, and the removal of the mandatory skills exam that presently applies to Chinese workers and discriminates against them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has a real problem here: how does it meet union complaints without disadvantaging China, without removing from Chinese workers the gains granted to them by the Abbott government under the FTA’s associated provisions?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ALP needs to beware. It has the unions on side but beyond that it looks isolated. Business is fighting on this issue. It is likely to keep fighting, and funding campaigns.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Syria, Abbott finished with the right policy, having gone the wrong way last weekend. In the end that won’t matter. The public will judge him on the final position, not a three-day reappraisal. Watching Abbott, however, he seems unable to grasp the political potential inherent in the Syrian decision.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Decisive offshore <b>refugee</b> decisions define a prime minister. That happened with Hawke, Malcolm Fraser and John Howard. Yet Abbott failed to grasp the full opportunity that opened to him this week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a chance to defy his critics, prove his humanitarian instincts, validate the gains from stopping the boats and project Australia as a multicultural society pledged to a responsible yet generous <b>refugee</b> intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The response of the media was revealing of Abbott’s problem. For most of the media, there had to be a catch. The idea of Abbott as a humanitarian was too difficult to comprehend — and the Prime Minister, even when he was announcing the historic decision, seemed unable to summon the rhetoric of compassion that might prompt people to think again about him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The combination, however, of extending RAAF operations into Syria while increasing the <b>refugee</b> intake invested Abbott with the ideal political balance: a modest boost to Australia’s military effort to help degrade <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> combined with generosity towards the Syrian victims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The truth is that Abbott feels deeply about these decisions in a personal and moral sense. He needs to learn how to convey this to the Australian public. A prime minister with whom the public feels no rapport has a limited future.This is a chance, a big chance, for Abbott.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Without stopping the boats there would have been no special Syrian <b>refugee</b> intake</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Chris Kenny Associate editor   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s border security that allows the country to show compassion</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Syrian-European <b>refugee</b> crisis and Australia’s response has taught us three things we already knew: our nation is always generous; if we again weaken our border regime, chaos will ensue; and the usual suspects never learn the lessons of border protection.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The number of displaced people is virtually inexhaustible. (The <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> says there are upwards of 16 million refugees in the world.) Australia’s attraction is obvious and understandable, and there will always be profiteers willing to exploit the situation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet while politicians, activists and commentators have had at least 15 years to educate themselves, stubborn ignorance persists. Some have turned wrongheadedness on border protection into a career choice, a badge of honour. So desperate was Sarah Hanson-Young to parade her compassion that when the exploitative trade of desperate people into Australia was stanched she travelled to the Mediterranean to tour their trauma.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2011, the Greens senator ­responded to <b>asylum</b>-seekers drowning on their way to Australia by noting, “tragedies happen, accidents happen”. But in July she gave radio interviews from the Mediterranean to discuss the “incredible experience” of seeing ­rescues at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead of reflecting on this deadly sea patrol (yes, a real one) as something Australia had successfully quelled, she said we could learn from Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hanson-Young praised Italy’s lack of secrecy, as if concealing the thousands of people arriving in Italian and Greek ports or hundreds of deaths at sea was a conceivable option. “There’s a lot of co-operation,” she said. “That’s what we need to see in Australia.” Hanson-Young seems to learn like a lemming — or a lemming herder. These observations are not cruel, but disguised kindness towards the senator. If we can possibly convince Hanson-Young to admit her errors — in the way Robert Manne has done — then we may see some sort of group awakening among the activists, journalists and broadcasters who eagerly echo her simplistic and sanctimonious nonsense without a hint of critical analysis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While our media applauds vainglorious displays of compassion — such as Liberal backbencher Craig Laundy sharing with us his family’s weepy moments over that lamentable image of drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi — it is the strength of character shown by people such as Scott Morrison, Chief of Army Angus Campbell and, yes, Tony Abbott that facilitates Australia’s generosity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Without “stopping the boats”, the prospect of offering sanctuary to an additional cohort of Syrian refugees would not have been possible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With detention centres full and boatloads of <b>asylum</b>-seekers arriving under Labor, our offshore special humanitarian program dropped from 5023 in 2007-08 to just 503 in 2012-13 — people-smuggling drastically reduced Australia’s ability to welcome overseas refugees based on need.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Border security enables compassion. It is unimaginable that if we still had people drowning off our shores and detention centres filled in every state our government could welcome 12,000 extra refugees. The only <b>asylum</b>-seekers to arrive then would be those willing to pay cash to a smuggler and risk their lives on treacherous journeys.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet it is those who have opposed tough border protection — Hanson-Young, Bill Shorten, other Greens and Labor MPs, activists such as Julian Burnside and commentators such as Paul Bongiorno and Monica Attard — who have pontificated loudest about the need for increased <b>refugee</b> ­intakes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To emphasise his empathy, Shorten invoked the image of three-year-old Aylan but referred to him as a “little girl” — twice. (Journalists seemed to self-censor what would have been deemed an illuminating gaffe by others.) The policies long supported by Hanson-Young, Burnside, Bongiorno and (until his recent conversion) Shorten are the same chaotic formula that would eliminate any chance of Australia helping the Syrians. These compassionistas refuse to account for the deaths, hardship and unfairness gen­erated by the policy weakness they embraced.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, they parade their moral vanity on the back of the thankless work carried out by those prepared to make the hard decisions and restore order. The compassionistas portray themselves as generous while they take advantage of policies they have long described as heartless and even racist. It is shameless.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not once do they stop to offer thanks or apologies to those at whom they have sneered, or the service men and women who have risked all and saved lives in dangerous operations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Media commentators — most of whom, it must be said, also have been on the wrong side of this debate — heap praise and credit upon politicians such as Laundy and NSW Premier Mike Baird for showing leadership. This is a perversion of reality. Displaying empathy, calling for generosity and reaping plaudits is the easy bit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thoughtful Australians will realise it has been the steadfast work of people such as Morrison, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and current Immigration Minister Peter Dutton that has delivered order and allowed compassion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Europe grapples with an overwhelming, proximate and more complex version of our own border protection task.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees from Iraq, Syria and Libya mix with <b>asylum</b>-seekers and opportunistic migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere to swamp European borders via the Medit­erranean coast and through Turkey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Compassion needs to be weighed against capability, fairness, security and priorities. These pressures test the essence of the nation-state, which is a concept already somewhat diminished within the EU.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By contributing to the military action in Syria and Iraq, increasing our humanitarian aid and taking 12,000 refugees for permanent settlement, Australia eases some pressure in an intolerable situation, contributes to a vague strategy to restore security and provides a life-changing opportunity for the chosen few.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What our actions won’t and can’t do is resolve the situation at source or relieve the challenges for Europe. So foremost in the mind of our own policymakers must be the protection of our own border regime, which has been re-established from chaos for a second time since the turn of the century.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sadly, rewarding those who have forced their way into Europe or who paid people-smugglers and are already in Australia, Nauru or on Manus Island would place the gains at risk. So the most vulnerable in Jordanian or Turkish camps who await their priceless gift of selection by Australia in coming weeks will be the lucky ones who benefit from our habitually generous nation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the likes of Hanson-Young, fundamental principles still need to be learned. A nation-state cannot effectively exist without exerting control over its borders. Illegal people-smuggling operations deliberately designed to subvert our immigration ­system cannot be tolerated and <b>boat</b> journeys that are inherently dangerous must not be encouraged.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We must be entitled to allocate our humanitarian places based on need, rather than allow smugglers to auction them to the highest bidders. And to maintain generous immigration levels (including the world’s second or third largest humanitarian component), the system must have integrity so that public faith can be maintained — underpinning our economic prosperity and social cohesion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These are simple principles that take a power of work and strength to deliver. They should not be trifled with by those seeking attention in a cynical compassion competition.Shorten called for 10,000 ­places, the Greens’ Richard ­­­Di ­Natale demanded 20,000 and ­independent Andrew Wilkie wanted 30,000. While they were bettering each other on how compassionate they were, others were doing something about it.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>THE OTHERISING OF PEOPLE</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>KATHLEEN NOONAN   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1040 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canvas</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LAST WORD Did we read that right? With four bodies for every square metre, they had been so desperate to reach air that the side of the truck where they scrambled was bent out of shape.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eventually it was their coffin, reported The <span class="companylink">Sunday Times</span> – all 71 dead – 59 men, eight women, four children in the truck crossing the border from Hungary. So decomposed, the police couldn’t at first count them. It is thought all were Syrians, fleeing violence. Did we see that right?</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The small body of Aylan Durdi washed up on the beach, dressed as any Australian toddler, face down like he had tripped on one of his sneakers but did not jump up again. Did we hear that right?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A senate inquiry has found the detention centre at Nauru is badly run and despite the Australian Government spending billions on the camp, its knowledge of what goes on inside is inadequate. Yet, despite the inquiry revealing a list of alarming allegations including child rape and sexual assault of <b>asylum</b> seekers, even before the recommendations were handed down, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton dismissed them. (How do you do that with a straight face?) He described the whole process as a witch-hunt. Shockingly, before the final report, one of those contractors, <span class="companylink">Transfield Services</span>, is given a five-year extension to run the government-funded camps at Nauru and Manus Island. A contract worth a speculated $2.7 billion. Inconceivable, really.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Are you comfortable with the secrecy and lack of transparency pervading detention centres? Or is “out of sight, out of mind’’ OK with you? That’s what the politicians hope. Dutton’s response: “I don’t have any comment to make in relation to the tender processes that are undertaken by the department. Completely an issue for the department.’’ Dutton is Sgt Schulz on Hogan’s Heroes – “I see nothing. I hear nothing and I say nothing’’. Sadly, this isn’t a comedy, it’s a tragedy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are being short-changed with the calibre of politicians in this country when it comes to <b>asylum</b> seeker policies. Saying “we’ve stopped the boats’’ is not enough.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many Australians are not happy with this country’s response to the world’s <b>refugee</b> crisis. Oh yeah, those elite inner-city hipster lefties? Well, no actually. Just, you know, ordinary decent Australians. I was in a small country church in a regional town in north Queensland recently and there in the bulletin is a call for more compassionate treatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers and change in government policy. Hallelujah.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This was sugar cane country, formerly Joh country, hardly a hotbed for radicals. Elsewhere, the Anglican Bishop of Newcastle has defended a priest over a sign outside a Gosford church that read: “Hell exists and it’s on Nauru’’. The messages are on the signboard outside the church on the NSW Central Coast, of which Father Rod Bower is archdeacon. Bishop Greg Thompson says: “They are serious questions of our capacity to be both compassionate and responsive to the great need across our region.’’ We sit here in Australia and watch Europe and, if we’re honest, thank our lucky stars we are so far away. Then we feel a little shabby, don’t we?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How is it possible the world can sit by and do nothing, not provide <b>asylum</b> for more? How is it possible for us to know, or at least suspect, the deep cruelty happening on Nauru, and do nothing?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then I came across the writing of neuroscientist Kathleen Taylor, who believes that once we start disparaging a particular group, it starts us on the slope to cruelty. She calls the process “otherisation’’. A research scientist and science writer affiliated with Oxford’s Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Taylor argues in her 2009 book, Cruelty: Human Evil and the Human Brain (<span class="companylink">Oxford University Press</span>), that the “otherising’’ of people means we don’t see them on the same moral and spiritual level as ourselves. We demonise certain groups in society so we can hurt them or at least ignore their hurt.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Taylor writes that the difference between someone hurling verbal abuse at a migrant and someone beating a migrant to death is a difference of degree, and not a difference in-kind. She proposes that they are features on a continuum of cruelty from the mildest thoughts and behaviour to the most extreme. At one end lies the initial separation of “Them’’(the Other inferior out-group) from “Us’’ (the superior in-group). Its minor implications include stereotypes, prejudices, off-colour jokes and mild verbal abuse directed at out-group members. Moving along the continuum is more vigorous verbal abuse, hostile and aggressive stereotyping, and then increasing physical violence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My ancestors wanted a better life so jumped on a <b>boat</b> from Ireland to a new country to try their luck. How about yours? Modern-day Australia is built on <b>boat</b> people and the notion of a fair go.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>refugee</b> crisis will not go away. We have to develop the capacity to have real conversations about refugees that go beyond “nope, nope, nope’’. While we’re waiting for the politicians to catch-up, one way to combat “otherisation’’ is to actually befriend some of the people from the other tribe. And that’s as easy as jumping on the Brisbane <b>Refugee</b> and <b>Asylum</b> Seeker Support Network (brassnetwork.org/brisbane-players) or similar group in your area.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You can get to know “another’’, take a family to the cricket, help them with official forms or English tutoring or just share a meal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AND ANOTHER THING … As the world goes to hell in a Mustang Convertible, it was sweet to see at 10am on Tuesday, on the corner of Lytton Rd and Heidelberg St, some glorious public smooching.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They look in their 20s, she’s running down towards Mowbray Park to catch the ferry, bare brown legs flying, laughing. He does not want to see her go. Catches up with her. Hand in her hair. It’s like seeing the first kiss of Spring, like watching bougainvillea explode.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A much underrated act – kissing. There should be more of it.noonanslastword@gmail.com</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Will best instincts or fear prevail?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The world is being tested by levels of mass migration that seem likely to persist and grow, writes TOM ALLARD.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Could these children change the way Australia thinks of refugees who arrive by <b>boat</b>? Aylan Kurdi, left, and his brother Galip drowned in their family's attempt to reach Greece.Photo: Tima Kurdi</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'We have enough land and food for everybody.' John Menadue, ex-head Immigration Department</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A girl holds candles in support of refugees in Sydney on September 7. Thousands of people around Australia gathered to remember Aylan Kurdi. Photo: <span class="companylink">Getty Images</span></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I t was, say politicians and <b>refugee</b> advocates alike, the image of Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler lifeless and alone on a Turkish beach, that did it. Fifteen years of ugly, rancorous and highly politicised debate in Australia over refugees was seemingly overturned by a bold gesture of compassion sparked by the photo of dead and desolate three-year-old. Russell Broadbent, the Coalition MP and long-time supporter of refugees, says it was simply "too raw to ignore". Precisely a week after the image was first broadcast and shared on social media around the world, Prime Minister Tony Abbott was standing in a Parliament House courtyard announcing Australia would take 12,000 Syrian refugees within a year, over and above Australia's existing <b>refugee</b> intake. A national discourse replete with abuse from adversaries on all sides was transformed. Rather than talk of queue jumpers and a wilful failure to integrate, people were praising the contribution of refugees to Australia's wellbeing. Abbott, himself, was earning plaudits from unlikely quarters. Australia was the most successful migrant nation ever. No one integrates refugees better than we do! For followers of the <b>refugee</b> issue, it was surreal to watch politicians in an auction to see who could be most caring. Giddy and even heady stuff. "Today, we've seen the Australian heart," says Craig Laundy, another Coalition MP who was at the vanguard of the internal agitation for action. Amid the breathtaking speed of events and kind words, there is, however, a sobering reality. The scale of the <b>refugee</b> crisis is so immense that Australia's offer of assistance, as generous as it may be, may come to be only a small down payment. The mass movement of people across borders may well get worse, much worse. "What we are seeing is just a leading indicator of what's to come," says John Menadue, a former Immigration Department head. "We will see more and more pressure from population movement. Mass migration by refugees is here to stay." What will Australia do next year when <b>refugee</b> numbers have risen further and there are more calls for another intake? Will the feel-good factor fade? And what is the solution? Tim Costello says Australia has reached a pivotal - and heartening - moment in its <b>refugee</b> debate. "The real breach in the wall is that we are saying we do have the capacity, we are generous, we can and must do more" says Costello, who heads <span class="companylink">World Vision</span>, which runs</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">camps for Syrian refugees. "The message got out there that 86 per cent of refugees are hosted in developing countries." The focus on the level of the <b>refugee</b> intake has been missing for much of the past 14 years, since the Tampa crisis sparked the split in political bipartisanship over <b>asylum</b> seekers and ushered in a new era of offshore detention and <b>boat</b> turn- backs at sea. For <b>refugee</b> advocates, the human rights of <b>boat</b> people caught in the system and the cruelty of offshore detention was at the centre of their advocacy. The <b>refugee</b> intake was a second-order issue. Yet, ultimately, it is the number of refugees that Australia resettles that is the most substantial contribution a nation can make to alleviating the global <b>refugee</b> crisis. To be sure, Abbott's natural instinct when faced with outcry over Syria's refugees was to reject expanding the intake. His government cut it when it took office, from 20,000 to 13,750. In the budget repair effort, withdrawing money from refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers was seen as a politically painless. But the outpouring of public support for Syria's wretched masses is grounded in long-held views. For years, the Mapping Social Cohesion report has put approval for a substantial humanitarian <b>refugee</b> program at 75 per cent. And, while just 25 per cent are sympathetic to <b>boat</b> people, polling from the <span class="companylink">Lowy Institute</span> this year suggests Australians were uneasy about the manner in which the "stop the boats" policy was being implemented. Despite a halt to <b>asylum</b> boats, respondents still ranked the government's response a "fail", among only three of seven categories that were negatively rated (climate change and the economy were the others). Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has suggested that the Coalition is open to taking more refugees. Labor is desperate to be bipartisan, too. "It depends if our leaders, if they want to appeal to our better instincts or that part of us we all have that fears outsiders," Menadue says. Menadue headed the Immigration Department during the Vietnamese <b>refugee</b> crisis, when Australia accepted 250,000 refugees, a massive intake, and national achievement, given Australia's almost entirely European population of 15 million. He recalls travelling up and down the country with immigration minister Ian McPhee and his Labor opponent Mick Young cajoling newspaper editors and meeting with community leaders to promote the intake. "It broke the back of the White Australia Policy."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says there are always challenges integrating first- generation humanitarian refugees, especially those who don't speak English. But "once they settle down, you find they make a fantastic contribution to Australian life". A recent report from the <span class="companylink">Australian Bureau of Statistics</span> found humanitarian refugees typically worked several jobs. After five years in the country, there is a sharp increase in the number who buy their first small business. Humanitarian refugees are an entrepreneurial class, twice as likely to have an unincorporated business as skilled migrants. With so many children among refugees, they also help combat the ageing of the population. Positive stories about refugees, their love for Australia and verve to</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">make good have emerged this week, rare for the media's coverage of the issue. There is almost a national excitement as accommodation is prepared and resources deployed for the first arrivals, due to come before Christmas. For the government, though, much remains the same. While representing a rapid-fire backdown from Tony Abbott's initial reluctance to increase the overall <b>refugee</b> intake, the decision to take 12,000 Syrians and allocate an extra $44 million to <b>refugee</b> camps was very much imprinted with his immigration world view. Australia will take refugees only from the camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Those taking boats across the Mediterranean Sea, massing at rail stations and breaking down fences in Europe will not be beneficiaries. Moreover, Syrians - or any other <b>asylum</b> seekers in detention - on Nauru and Manus Island will remain there. "We will never, ever do anything that encourages the evil trade of people smuggling," Abbott says. "This is the selfsame trade which resulted in the deaths of more than 1000 people at sea in the waters to our north and ... perhaps many, many more thousands in the Mediterranean."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian government maintains that "stopping the boats" is a major part of the answer to Europe's influx of hundreds of thousands refugees. And, to be sure, The <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> and other media outlets have reported that more <b>asylum</b> seekers from the Middle East and Africa are rushing to get to Europe, attracted by the compassionate response of many Europeans and Angela Merkel's cry for Europe to open its doors to the human tide. The achievement of stopping the boats is significant, and one the government is certainly not shy about trumpeting. In a tough and sharp interview with 7.30 host Leigh Sales this week, Abbott reflexively answered one question on the economy by saying, "We have stopped the boats." But, while it may have worked in Australia, a maritime nation dealing with tens of thousands of <b>boat</b> people, it is not a model that can exported to places where there are millions crossing borders. "It only works if other countries, especially those close to conflicts, don't follow it," Tim Costello says. "If Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan did it, millions would literally die." The conflicts in Syria and Libya are seemingly intractable and the sheer scale of the <b>refugee</b> exodus</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">makes it horrendously expensive, and cruel, to shuttle people off to camps for years, if not decades. Costello says the surge of refugees to Europe from Syria was sparked in large part by deteriorating conditions in the camps, where 3.3 million inhabitants, many of them children, have languished for years. "They are just terrible. You have huge numbers of people who are in debt to middlemen. There are standovers and threats," he says. Food vouchers have been cut by more than half to $13.50 per month. "That means they are living on 45c a day. They are going hungry. They can't look after their children ... there is a desperation that we are going to die here." With little prospect of release for years through official channels, people will keep taking risks and employ people smugglers to find a better life in Europe and beyond. Technological advances - phones and transport - and lower costs mean travel has never been easier. Economic development in some of the world's desperately poorest countries means many more millions of families are no longer leading subsistence lives and can scrimp together their life savings to pay a people smuggler. Menadue argues any giddy hope of a new era of bipartisanship and generosity towards refugees, must be tempered by the enormity of the <b>refugee</b> crisis and the prospect it will get worse. "It's a challenge as great as climate change. And the two may become linked in the future. Climate change has the potential to displace hundreds of million of people," he says. "We have enough land and food for everybody but it's divided by borders. ... We will need new institutions, and a new culture, to deal with large and mass movements of people." More immediately, Costello says, pressure must be brought to bear on other developed countries to do more - Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, which resettle few, if any, refugees. In the end, it may take more harrowing stories and images such as Aylan Kurdi's to keep the momentum for a more compassionate approach. "Is this a 'moment' for Australia and its attitude to refugees? I'm not sure," says George Tan, of the <span class="companylink">University of Adelaide</span>'s Population and Migration Research Centre. "If there's a camera there though, it helps."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Crisis After four years of war, the Syrian conflict is now front of mind for Australians. Tony Abbott's initial response on refugees suggest he might have been on the wrong side of an historical event that has no end in sight, writes Tony Walker.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This was not shaping as Tony Abbott finest moment, but between the weekend and a meeting of the National Security Committee of Cabinet on Tuesday the dollar coin dropped that Australia could not both bomb Syria and refuse to take a reasonable quota of Syrian refugees. Abbott's clunky initial response to a photograph of a drowned small Syrian <b>refugee</b> boy fleeing for a better life was to adopt a defensive crouch by discouraging speculation Australia would absorb an increased intake of displaced Syrians beyond existing quotas.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Monday he had realised this position was unsustainable in light of community agitation from across the political spectrum and strong interventions by senior colleagues, including the NSW Premier Mike Baird.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott's advisers insist his initial caution has been misinterpreted, telling AFR Weekend that work on an increased <b>refugee</b> intake was well under way. Baird's remarks weighed, as did those of deputy Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce and former immigration minister Philip Ruddock who spoke compassionately - and persuasively - at a joint party meeting on Tuesday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ruddock told AFR Weekend he had been warning of the "enormity of the Syria problem" for at least a year. "We are talking about millions of refugees, not tens of thousands," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ruddock was immigration minister when the Howard government issued temporary visas to enable 4000 Kosovar refugees to stay in Australia during the Balkans war in the late 1990s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most of the Kosovars have returned home, but no Australian official kids himself or herself that once settled here there is much prospect of thousands of Syrians going back to their shattered homeland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rather, an initial intake of 12,000 will most likely prove a downpayment on bigger numbers. Those refugees will presumably come mostly from <b>refugee</b> havens on Syria's border - in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's important that we act with our heads as well as with our hearts," Abbott said when responding to a question about why he had appeared to baulk initially at taking additional numbers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The responsibility of prime ministers, in particular, is to act in a measured and considered way, and I didn't want to rush into something before receiving advice."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Officials are recalling the resettlement globally of something like 500,000 Vietnamese <b>boat</b> people who had fled the communists in the years after the fall of Saigon in 1975.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under the Fraser and Hawke governments, Australia took about 80,000 Vietnamese refugees in the 10 years after the war, many of them <b>boat</b> people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Syrian crisis in which some 11.5 million Syrians have been displaced, including more than 4 million outside the country represents an almost unimaginable challenge to <b>refugee</b> agencies and host governments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No one is pretending that Australia's response will amount to much more than a "drop in the bucket", as one official put it, but it has proved a significantly larger drop than seemed in prospect at the weekend, judging by Abbott's initial response.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A senior Cabinet minister told AFR Weekend the challenge for his colleagues was to persuade the Prime Minister that the greatest <b>refugee</b> crisis since World War II could not in any way be compared with the <b>asylum</b> seeker "<b>boat</b> people" issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott's advisers were telling him the same thing. "We all get it," said one. In such ways the barnacles encrusting a "stop the boats" mindset were scraped away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the end Abbott yielded to his better angels. But not before he gave encouragement to the belief his political instincts leave much to be desired just a week out from the critical Canning by-election in Western Australia to fill a casual vacancy caused by the death of Don Randall.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott appears to have gained some kudos in the eastern states from his <b>refugee</b> announcement, but whether this resonates in Canning is another matter. While there have been discordant voices in conservative ranks, the broad consensus within the Liberal and National parties is that Australia needed to be seen conspicuously to be doing its bit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This is an issue that goes beyond politics," Dan Tehan, member for Malcolm Fraser's old seat of Wannon, told the AFR Weekend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Colleagues have expressed irritation with South Australian senator Cory Bernardi and with Liberal leader in the Senate, Eric Abetz over what are regarded as their insensitive remarks. Bernardi's assertion that the drowned Syrian toddler, Aylan Kurdi, was not a legitimate <b>refugee</b> since he had been residing in Turkey after fleeing Syria several years ago occasioned outrage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abetz's call for priority to be given to minorities, notably Christians, was rebuffed by fellow Liberals. Baird, who is emerging as something of a conscience figure in the Liberal Party, said there should be no discrimination between persecuted Muslims or Christian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Talal Yassine, a business and Muslim community leader, who came to Australia as a 4-year old in 1977, from civil war-torn Lebanon, welcomes the government's <b>refugee</b> announcement, but he would like to see numbers doubled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's not sufficient," Yassine said. "It does not accord with Australia's grand traditions as a migrant country."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Government officials may not concede the point, but almost certainly feeding into the decision to make a relatively generous downpayment on the <b>refugee</b> intake is sensitivity to criticism over Australia's <b>refugee</b> policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week's <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> editorial savaging the government's stop-the-boats policies did not go overlooked in Canberra.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"His policies have been inhumane, of dubious legality and strikingly at odds with the country's tradition of welcoming people fleeing persecution and war," the Times said. Officials decried the editorial, but there is no doubt on issues such as refugees and climate change the Abbott government finds itself outside the Western mainstream, and has suffered reputational damage as a consequence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Among other factors weighing in the government's political calculations will no doubt have been Labor's demand that Australia take 10,000 Syrian refugees. Abbott has trumped that figure, burnishing his tattered humanitarian credentials in the process.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But as the world surveys what is arguably its greatest challenge since the end of World War II when tens of millions of people were displaced, it is hard to predict where all this will end, and indeed, how a <b>refugee</b> tap might be turned off given the continued destabilisation of the Middle East, parts of Africa and South Asia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These are the stark figures: Lebanon has 1.1 million registered refugees from Syria, but Lebanese officials put the overall number higher at 1.5 million.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lebanon's population is 4.5 million. Therefore one in four people in the country are refugees on top of 500,000 Palestinians in <b>refugee</b> camps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jordan has 630,000 refugees registered by the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>, but estimates put the number as high as 1.4 million, or about one in five of the population. This is a huge burden on tiny Jordan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turkey is the other main <b>refugee</b> recipient. Something like 1.9 million Syrians have crossed the Syrian-Turkish border.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the Syrian crisis was the only such crisis, it might be manageable - just. But it is far from the only cause of continuing instability and desperation among people worldwide seeking a better and more secure life away from war.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yemen, for example, has turned into a humanitarian disaster. An estimated 1.5 million Yemenis have been forced from their homes by a protracted civil war. Almost half the country's population of 25 million is in need of food aid.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Further afield, instability in Libya where the country has effectively fractured in two is driving people to seek <b>refugee</b> elsewhere. Then there is the continuing outflow from war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan, bulging <b>refugee</b> camps in Pakistan and a <b>refugee</b> exodus from places such as Eritrea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> estimates that the world is awash with as many as 60 million refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In light of all of this there seems little doubt that 2015 will be known as the year of <b>refugee</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The bad news is that conditions in places such as Syria are set to deteriorate further unless the international community steps in to bring about a political settlement of a civil war that pits the ruling Bashar al-Assad regime against multiple jihadist groups, including Islamic state.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is an extraordinarily complex conflict that may be beyond any form of resolution in which case Syria will be condemned to years more of civil conflict, and a continued <b>refugee</b> exodus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Likewise, neighbouring Iraq continues to teeter on the brink of an unravelling that would see large numbers of Iraqis seeking refuge elsewhere.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's decision to extend its aerial bombing campaign into eastern Syria to attack <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> targets may well add to internal dislocation as civilian populations seek to avoid becoming "human shields".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Syrian regime's ruthless use of barrel bombs that inflict horrendous civilian casualties in urban areas shows no sign of slackening, nor is there any indication that IS is being pushed back from its strongholds in eastern Syrian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All this is a recipe for a continuing flood of refugees that will demand more than a piecemeal response.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Philip Orchard, senior lecturer in Peace and Conflict studies at Queensland University, advocates a comprehensive global program, including increased humanitarian assistance to the countries around Syria; safe processing centres in Turkey and in either Libya or Tunisia, and a global resettlement program and provision for safe return for those denied claims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One suggestion with merit is to create safe havens that would enable Syrians to remain within their country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is clearly required is a much better co-ordinated global response, and in this a newly sensitised Australian government might play a more proactive role.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Walker is the AFR's international editor and a former Middle East correspondent.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees A deep sense of history, superb political instincts and economic realities drive the Germany Chancellor's leadership on the <b>refugee</b> crisis, writes Geoff Winestock.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been the world's most successful centre-right leader for a decade, and this week she gave Prime Minister Tony Abbott another lesson in how it is done.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Abbott dithered over his response to the Syrian crisis, Merkel got ahead of the curve by pledging $6.6 billion towards housing about 150,000 extra <b>asylum</b> seekers a year, and also promised to relax the rules for Syrian refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Adverse comparisons were drawn in Australia between Merkel's compassionate conservatism and Abbott's "nope, nope, nope". Merkel's political skills are legendary. She has tacked left and right for the past five years on the Greek debt crisis, always finding the sweet spot between looking fiscally tough and keeping the eurozone together. But she herself admitted that migration is a much harder problem.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The tension that has built all year over the flood of refugees across the Mediterranean towards Germany created the same quandary for Merkel as it did for Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As recently as July, she was still talking tough and pitching for votes on the right. In an unfortunate televised incident, she went too far: she made a Palestinian girl on a temporary visa cry by telling the 14-year-old that she could be deported. "Politics is tough," Merkel told the girl before creepily patting her shoulder.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Merkel has a genius for smelling the political wind. She calculated that the long-term risk was for her party to be drawn too far to the right. The summer saw a wave of attacks on <b>asylum</b>-seeker hostels in Germany, more ugly scenes on <span class="companylink">European Union</span> borders and the bodies of 30 refugees found in an abandoned truck in Austria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So Merkel announced her more tolerant policies and warned her party not to try to pander to the racists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Don't follow them," Merkel said. "Too often their hearts are filled with stereotypes, coldness and, yes, even hate."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The timing was perfect. She was leading the world when it woke to the horror of the images of the Syrian-Kurdish toddler found dead on the beach in Turkey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marion Detjen of the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam says there was a mixture of high principle and politics in Merkel's moves. "Most conservative politicians are sceptical towards immigration, but when it comes to the situation of the Syrian refugees, many of them have accepted that there is really a humanitarian problem and they would like to help, especially if they have a religious background," Detjen says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She says that it is not just the horrors of Nazi Germany that motivate attitudes in Germany. Unlike Australia, most Germans have a <b>refugee</b> in the family who either fled the Soviet forces in eastern Europe at the end of WWII or jumped across the Berlin Wall during the Cold War.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott government has rushed to point out that, on some measures, Australia is more generous than Germany since we will take about 20,000 refugees a year under the official United Nations program, including Syrians direct from the border camps in Turkey and Lebanon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Germany, however, takes a lot more refugees who come by the unofficial route. They cross the Mediterranean in boats, hike through the Balkans and then turn up in Munich or Stuttgart.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the first quarter of this year, 73,000 applications for <b>asylum</b> were lodged inside Germany and, given Merkel's policy shift, Germany is now expecting 800,000 for the year. On a per-capita basis, Germany is taking 1 per cent of its population compared with 0.001 per cent for Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are limits to Germany's generosity, however. Merkel has opened her heart to Syrian refugees but, at the same time, she pledged immediate deportation of <b>asylum</b> seekers from the Balkans who are seen as less deserving.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Merkel has carried her pro-business party with her, it is partly because the German economy is strong and desperate for workers. The unemployment rate is 4.7 per cent, the lowest in the EU. Germany's budget will be just in surplus, despite the extra costs of housing the Syrians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, after a slow start, Germany has learnt the knack of integrating <b>asylum</b> seekers into society.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Washington-based <span class="companylink">Peterson Institute for International Economics</span> says unemployment rates among recent migrants in Germany are lower than in the United States. And Germany needs 3 million new workers a year because its population is ageing much more rapidly than the European average.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Detjen says the Syrian refugees are more acceptable than those from Africa or the Balkans from this point of view because they are seen as mostly middle-class people and fairly well-educated. "In spite of the omnipresent fear of Islam, there is a certain belief that we can make these moderately Muslim Syrians into 'good Germans'," she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Germany's policies could add to strains over migration within the EU, since Merkel has thrown away the rule book developed during the Balkan wars of the 1990s on how to handle <b>refugee</b> flows.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under a deal called the Dublin Treaty, <b>asylum</b> seekers are supposed to register and have their claims assessed in the first country where they enter the EU - usually Italy, Greece or Hungary. Now Merkel has given Syrians carte blanche to flout the rules and come to Berlin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some warn that Merkel's gesture will just attract more migrants to take the risky voyage by <b>boat</b> across the Mediterranean. There is, however, no appetite in Germany for a fortress Europe border policy like Abbott's "stop the boats". It looks too bad. A scene that went viral on the internet this week showed Czech border police writing numbers on children's arms to help them keep track of <b>asylum</b> seekers at a railway station. The historical reminiscence of the Holocaust was painfully clear. So, for now, Germany is set on a more open policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Detjen says that Merkel has once again grabbed the political centre, but her track record shows she is always ready to adjust her settings. "It might change if the situation aggravates more, but this willingness to help pretty much unites conservatives and left-wingers, leaving out only a minority of hard-core egoists and nationalists."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Nothing to lose</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Ruth Pollard   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1261 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ali Deeb risked his life fleeing Syria for Germany. This is his story. Words by Ruth Pollard and pictures by Kate Geraghty</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The parcel</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He took a small book of verse by the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani, his grandmother's silver ring, his glasses and a hard drive containing family photographs, copies of his handwritten recipes and songs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It wasn't difficult for the 21-year-old Syrian to travel light - he has been on the move since he was 17, when he quietly disappeared from his hometown of Latakia just a couple of days before the papers that would force him to join the army arrived at his door.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But even this modest, precious parcel - tied up in plastic to protect it from the water - did not make it onto the smuggler's <b>boat</b> that took him out of Libya.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He dropped it into the sea as he and hundreds of others pushed through chest-deep water on the darkest of nights to get out to the cracked wooden <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As women and children struggled beside him, he picked up a little girl from Damascus, held her above the waves and let his possessions wash away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The wooden <b>boat</b></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thirteen days before, Ali had made the call to one of the people smugglers making his fortune sending desperate refugees into the Mediterranean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Come now," the smuggler had told him, "we have a <b>boat</b> going tonight." Ali travelled to the port city of Zuwara, 100 kilometres west of Tripoli, only to find the <b>boat</b> was already full.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He took us to a house and in the beginning there was 40 of us there, then every day more people would come ... we stayed 12 days and finally, on day 13, we went.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They put people from Africa, Bangladesh and Pakistan downstairs, we had good luck, when we got to the <b>boat</b> we were allowed to stay upstairs." As the <b>boat</b> left Zuwara, dangerously overcrowded with at least 565 on board, the pilot jumped off and one of the refugees was left to captain the <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It was so dangerous, at times we thought we would die."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Why make such a journey? "I stayed in Libya for nearly two years and in that time anyone could have killed me ... it is so lawless there, so violent, that you forget the real meaning of living or dying - you can die at any time."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He felt similarly trapped in Syria, where his only options were to be drafted into the Syrian army loyal to President Bashar al-Assad or join the rebel Free Syrian Army, the al-Qaeda-linked <span class="companylink">Nusra Front</span> or the <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I could not do any of it ... I cannot go into any army because I cannot kill anyone," he says quietly but emphatically.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"You have only one life, either live it well or leave it - I thought it is worth taking the chance on the <b>boat</b>."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The rescue</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the old, blue <b>boat</b> appeared in the distance, it was gently rocking to and fro. Hundreds of worried faces looked towards the MY Phoenix rescue ship and we looked back at them with a deepening sense of dismay at how many precious lives had been entrusted to a vessel so unseaworthy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ali is on the top deck, sitting with his friend and neighbour from Latakia, Ahmed, and Ahmed's pregnant sister and her husband. Next to them is a family from Damascus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fear and worry is etched into their faces after a long, dark night at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An inflatable races towards them and a frantic few hours later they are safely aboard the Phoenix, by now carrying way above its capacity, refugees crushed next to each other on two open decks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It will be three days' sailing before they reach land - days in which the terror of their journey and rescue will mix with the hope and anxiety at what they will soon face. Police, immigration officials, locals, medical checks, a bewildering maze of bureaucracy, new languages: a new horizon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Italian landing</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"When I first saw the coast of Italy I thought I was sleeping and dreaming at the same time, and finally that dream was coming true," Ali says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We had been packed into the <b>boat</b> like sardines and finally we were free."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once Ali and the other 415 refugees left the <b>boat</b> at the port of Taranto in southern Italy, they waited for several hours on the dock as people went through medical checks and other official processes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They boarded a bus and eight hours later, in the early hours of Sunday morning, they pulled into the central Italian city of Pisa. From there they travelled by train to Milan and that night they slept on the floor of the art deco Central Station.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The police were very kind to us, they allowed us to sleep inside and just asked that we keep our eyes on the children," Ali says. "We caught the first train to Munich the next day."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When he called his family to tell them he'd made it to safety, "they said 'we thought you were dead!' I said, 'no, I am alive and I am whole, I have all my fingers and toes,"' he says, grinning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The German journey</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Munich, Ali and his friends went straight to the police centre near the railway station to register as refugees, but it wasn't to be. The police took their names and sent them on their way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We got on the next train to Hanover but we were so tired we were almost falling asleep ... nodding off and trying to keep watch at the same time," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finally they found a police station that would register their details - they were given train tickets to Braunschweig, about 40 minutes away, and from there, they caught a bus to a sports stadium that had been converted into a reception centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once someone is fingerprinted, they are registered in the country as an <b>asylum</b> seeker and that is where their application for <b>asylum</b> must be processed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Syrians, Germany is a preferred destination following the government's decision to open its doors to up to 800,000 refugees this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And what are Ali's first impressions of Germany, I ask, as we step off a tram in downtown Braunschweig less than a week after he was rescued at sea? "Beautiful, clean, cold, and like Italy, there are many good people here."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The future</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the outskirts of Braunschweig, along an old cobblestone road lined with trees, in a <b>refugee</b> centre filled with hundreds of people fleeing desperate lives, Ali is planning his future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I want to study to be a chef, maybe one day I can be the next Jamie Oliver," he says, laughing. "I have been cooking in restaurants and cafes since I was young, I was a chef in Libya before I came here and I love it." But since the <b>boat</b> trip, where Ali spent much of his time on the MY Phoenix as a volunteer translator helping the <span class="companylink">Medecins Sans Frontieres</span> team, his focus has shifted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I might volunteer at <span class="companylink">MSF</span> ... when I was on the <b>boat</b> I see it is very easy to help people ... if I stay and study to be a chef I am helping only myself, maybe my family, but if I volunteer I will help a lot of families, maybe hundreds." For now, like tens of thousands of others, he is waiting for a visa.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>SHORTEN’S PYRRHIC VICTORY ON REFUGEES</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>David Crowe Political Correspondent </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has too much baggage to claim the moral high ground</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It takes a deft touch to extract a political gain from a humanitarian crisis, so Bill Shorten can look back on the last week knowing he scored a point against Tony Abbott in the response to the Syrian <b>refugee</b> crisis.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the Prime Minister was too quick to limit his options last weekend, Shorten moved to exploit the moment. He thought faster than Abbott, set the agenda for the day and helped build a better outcome for Syrian refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott made it all too easy for his opponent. The Labor tactics compounded the cartoon image of the Prime Minister as a heartless warrior. If you were stuck at the South Pole without a satellite phone you could still tell how the debate was running on social media.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But make no mistake: as well as demanding compassion, Labor was seeking a political advantage at every turn. The effect was to gloss over the gaping flaws in Labor’s policy record — and the hard reality that Labor in power could not have done what Abbott just accomplished.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For all the eloquence about the national response to the Syrian crisis, genuine though it is, the political tactics were obvious.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten made sure to announce his goal of accepting 10,000 refugees on Monday in a way that would maximise the pressure on his opponent. There was no phone call to Abbott beforehand. It was timed to give Labor an edge in question time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When federal cabinet approved the one-off intake of 12,000, on the other hand, Abbott phoned Shorten to let him know the decision — and the expansion of airstrikes in Syria — before announcing the changes at about noon. Parliament marked the outcome with bipartisan statements in question time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As an Opposition Leader, of course, Shorten has to use every trick in the book including a surprise bid in an auction for refugees. In the same position a few years ago, Abbott was ruthless to the point of blocking the Malaysia solution. John Howard took Kim Beazley by surprise over Tampa in 2001. Talk of bipartisan leadership is for dreamers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott’s mistake was to reject the option of a higher <b>refugee</b> intake on Sunday. When asked if Australia would offer <b>refugee</b> ­places “over and above” the annual intake of 13,750 he said no when he should have left himself room to move.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The slow response was a sign of Abbott’s political weakness. Unsure of his support in the partyroom, certain of divisions in cabinet, far behind in the opinion polls, facing a by-election in Canning and wary of offending conservative Liberal allies, Abbott chose caution over a rushed decision. The real leadership was left to Liberals such as Craig Laundy from western Sydney and Ewen Jones from northern Queensland, both of whom called for a bigger intake. Laundy was days ahead of both Shorten and Abbott in arguing for a big response last Friday. Then NSW Liberal Premier Mike Baird used <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> to plead for a bigger humanitarian intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Remember, while Cory Bernardi can generate easy headlines with his provocative remarks, he remains an outlier. He is also surplus to requirements. The government’s survival does not depend on whether Bernardi keeps his place in the Senate but on whether Laundy and Jones hold their marginal seats in the house. Wednesday’s outcome showed who the Prime Minister was listening to. Abbott has more than enough critics within his own team but on this issue he has strong support. Some of those who have worried about the PM’s judgment in the past do not fault him here. Instead they mock the Opposition Leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Shorten is a classic hollow man, he has played this on the politics, not with real compassion,” says one Liberal. “Even after the decision was made, he moved on to the next attack — what religion would people be.” The government’s subterranean tensions continue. Abbott’s handling of same-sex marriage and Bronwyn Bishop’s expenses scandal fuelled doubts about his judgment and put everyone on edge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet many backbenchers welcome Abbott’s action on refugees and the decision to extend airstrikes into Syria. The outcome eases rather than accentuates the instability. And what of the policy reality? Voters will probably keep Labor’s recent history in mind when they judge this week’s events.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has been all over the place on immigration for six years. While Kevin Rudd proclaimed a belief in a “big Australia” in early 2010, Julia Gillard rushed to appease western Sydney six months later by debunking the idea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On skilled foreign workers, Labor moved to speed up the processing of 457 visas in early 2008 but then swung back two years later to warn of 10,000 rorts in the system — a claim rejected by independent analysis by the Migration Council of Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">History shows skilled foreign workers are a good source of future citizens — just like refugees — but Labor has been too eager to take a populist line on the entire program. Now it has reached an extreme where it exaggerates the issue to object to the trade deal with China. And Labor softened policies on <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> arrivals in 2009 only to regret it for years. Could Australia accept 12,000 refugees if Labor’s old border protection policies were still in place? Of course not. This should be fundamental to the debate on the Syrian refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the last financial year before Labor lost office more than 26,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers and crew arrived by <b>boat</b>. A Labor leader could not have risked a generous one-off intake on top of those arrivals. Even today, with the boats halted, this week’s <b>refugee</b> decision will be a strain on the immigration and settlement system.This is where generous sentiments count for nothing. On actual performance in the migration portfolio, Labor carries too much baggage to win the climb to the moral high ground.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Abbott's welcome mat wins friends</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Mark Kenny. Mark Kenny is Fairfax Media's chief political correspondent.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>888 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Remember when the prestige of governing was considered good for a percentage point or two, all other things being equal? The presumed advantage of incumbency. But now?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the era of uncommitted voters and instant communication, competitors for office live from issue to issue. It can be brutal. Yet within that volatility, there is one advantage of power that oppositions still do not enjoy: being there. Distinct from prestige, "being there" is the singular responsibility falling to governments to respond to events and the opportunity to get their responses right.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Before this week, Tony Abbott had almost never done this, and it shows in his figures. Monday marked his second anniversary as Prime Minister. Newspoll that morning (kindly brought forward from its customary Tuesday release) showed the Coalition still eight points off Labor on 46-54. That's 30 Newspolls now without a single government lead. When Fairfax-Ipsos and other regular polls are added in, Abbott's dud run nudges 180.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Crucially, Newspoll's latest survey also showed him trailing Bill Shorten as better prime minister and that the Coalition had gone backwards on every indicator measured on election in 2013. Party-room chatter about replacing the Prime Minister and Treasurer Joe Hockey immediately ticked up. Despair deepened.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet a week that began so miserably ended on something of a high. The reasons were surprising: an escalating international humanitarian crisis, an emboldened Labor Party, an upwelling of pro-<b>refugee</b> Liberals and an unlikely press conference on Wednesday that cast Abbott in a new and unfamiliar role: Prime Minister of Australia. When Abbott confounded critics by promising to take in 12,000 Syrian refugees from camps in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, everything changed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Flanked by his foreign affairs and defence ministers and the Chief of the Defence Force, the PM's demeanour was uncommonly forward and inclusive. He had not only stared down a noisy chorus of divisive lightweights in his party room - dubbed the knuckle-draggers - he had perhaps for the first time in his troubled prime ministership, eschewed his normal reflex to view things as simple left-right binaries, opting for unity rather than division. In short, he had taken a step towards the middle point of politics, towards Labor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a big moment for the Abbott operation, which has too often resembled a combat unit than a national government. Here, on the incendiary issue of <b>asylum</b> seekers of all things, Abbott had demonstrated to his trenchant critics in the party room, that he could change, could learn, and was capable of hearing the mainstream over the strident ravings of favoured shock jocks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor's role in Abbott's policy shift should not be overlooked either. Considering the electoral damage it had sustained during its disastrous boats policy while in office, the fact that Shorten, his deputy Tanya Plibersek, and his immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, felt inclined to strike out boldly on Monday calling for $100 million of aid and a 10,000-place immediate intake of Syrians, is significant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As one Labor insider noted, Abbott's announcement was a function of how far the centre point of <b>refugee</b> policy has moved. "It was the first time the Coalition has come towards us in the immigration-<b>asylum</b> seeker policy space, probably since the Tampa crisis in 2001 when the consensus collapsed," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two things emboldened Labor. The first was its national conference decision in July to drop its contemptuous opposition and instead embrace government policies directed against people smuggling - including turnbacks if needed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That shift was tactically wise and morally correct. Its dividend is apparent in a more compassionate policy overall. The proof is the extent to which Shorten was able to get back on the front foot on refugees and to advocate the expansion of the orderly resettlement of displaced persons - both through Labor's proposed permanent doubling to 27,000, and though the one-off 10,000-place Syrian increase. In consigning the chaos, anxiety, and maritime deaths of unregulated <b>boat</b> arrivals to the past, it has neutralised one of Abbott's most valuable lines of attack.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The second was the intervention of progressive Liberals such as NSW Premier Mike Baird and federal MPs like Craig Laundy and Russell Broadbent, following worldwide revulsion at pictures of a drowned Syrian toddler on a Turkish beach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The net result also weighed on Abbott who decided not to go to the mattresses when faced with party- room opposition - as he had on climate change and same-sex marriage. That he did not is even more surprising given that as recently as Sunday he had stipulated that any Syrian intake be handled within the existing humanitarian program capped at 13,750 places a year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A final notable factor in Abbott's rapid "journey", was the observance of proper decision-making processes. That began with dispatching Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to Europe to discuss Australia's response, and followed with two cabinet meetings, a meeting of the national security committee and three party-room meetings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course, whether Abbott's brains trust has learnt from its excursion into building national unity, remains to be seen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mark Kenny is <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>'s chief political correspondent.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The dark side of our <b>refugee</b> policies</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>621 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not seeking to diminish the appositeness of the Abbott government's plan to allow an extra 12,000 refugees into Australia over the next year, a reality check is in order.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The warm fuzzy feeling many might have as we prepare to accept refugees fleeing war-torn Syria must be set squarely against this nation's terrible and long-standing maltreatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers. The difference between their situation and those who will come from Middle East <b>refugee</b> camps is that their applications for refuge have not yet been processed or finalised.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Tony Abbott, though, claims there is a "world of difference" between the refugees in camps in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, and those who are already locked up courtesy of our government. His highly presumptive interpretation of the circumstances of <b>asylum</b> seekers on Manus Island and Nauru is predicated on one thing: how the people got here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet the method of arrival is entirely irrelevant under international law. The "world of difference" of which our Prime Minister speaks is one that has been crafted by his government, and it has been done to demonise people who fled to this country by <b>boat</b>. Ministers and bureaucrats talk of "queues" and "front doors" and "back doors" to the <b>refugee</b> process, as if there were some kind of orderliness to the whole ugly mess of fleeing persecution. There is no orderliness. There are no queues, no doors, and in some countries there is no entry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The sophistry pedalled by the Abbott government is intended to dilute empathy and, in turn, diminish the plight of thousands of <b>asylum</b> seekers here in Australia. Indeed, it pours scorn on them merely because they came by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government claims it is saving lives by detaining <b>boat</b>-borne <b>asylum</b> seekers and barring them from resettlement in Australia. For evidence it points to the absence of reported deaths at sea. But <b>asylum</b> seekers being held on Manus Island and Nauru, or in immigration detention facilities on the mainland or in community detention, are languishing. Their lives have been put on hold indefinitely.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is an inhumane experiment; one that has been poorly managed, poorly supervised, that offers no hope to genuine refugees who need care and the support facilities to begin their lives anew.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are not illegal immigrants. They are legally seeking refuge here from persecution. Yet this government tries to browbeat them into submission, by telling them to make up their own minds and go elsewhere.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is why the reality check is important. Because when the former immigration minister Scott Morrison trumpets, as he did on ABC Radio yesterday, that Australia takes more refugees per capita than any other country in the world (but only from <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> camps), that the government provides welfare, education, accommodation and health support for refugees, and gloats that "we don't just let them walk across the border and pitch a tent", we have to say "Enough".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This government doesn't let anyone cross the border. It pays the crooks in the people-smuggling trade to return <b>asylum</b> seekers by <b>boat</b>, across open seas, back to endless hopelessness elsewhere. It pitches tents on foreign islands and dumps the <b>asylum</b> seekers inside. It even denies some refugees who live in our community, whose claims have been proved, who want to rebuild their lives, the simple life-affirming dignity of being permitted to work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In all, Australia is engaged in a shameful, degrading and illegitimate method of determining the fates of <b>asylum</b> seekers. It cannot hold its head high in regards to one intake of refugees while many others languish in prisons of the government's making.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Local humanitarian angry over anti-<b>refugee</b> comments</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>190 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DAPTO mother Yvonne Mitchell says she is incredibly passionate about the <b>asylum</b>-seeker crisis and helping refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having previously worked with resettled families, Ms Mitchell found it all too raw seeing her <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> feed flooded by images of Syrian families trekking through Europe in hope of a better life.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I was absolutely heartbroken. There's so much negative stigma ... Australians will never know and never ever understand," she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Mitchell admitted getting angry at the amount of negative comments and posts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"If it's that bad they've got to risk their lives, their partners' lives and their children's lives to get onto a <b>boat</b> where there's a 50 per cent chance that they're going to make it and when they get to the other end there's no guarantee that where they're going is going to be a safer place ... you would do everything in your power to protect your family, your children and have some future where you're not having your house shot at and bombed every day."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Manus and Nauru <b>asylum</b>-seekers barred from intake</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>662 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition and Labor have rejected any suggestion Syrian or Iraqi <b>asylum</b>-seekers in Nauru or Manus Island detention be included in the extra 12,000 <b>refugee</b> places because it could “spring the lock” on people-smuggling to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Abbott immediately ruled out yesterday taking in Syrians or Iraqis who are being held for offshore processing, because there was “a world of difference” between the people in camps on the border of Syria and “people who have done a deal with people-smugglers to go way beyond the country of first <b>asylum</b>”.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We will never, ever do anything that encourages the evil trade of people-smuggling and all of those who have come to Australia by <b>boat</b> are here as a result of people-smuggling and this is the selfsame trade which resulted in the deaths of more than 1000 people at sea in the waters to our north and has currently resulted in the deaths of perhaps many, many more thousands in the Mediterranean,” the Prime Minister said in Port Moresby.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Canberra, Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles said keeping <b>asylum</b>-seekers on Nauru and Manus Island was ­“absolutely critical” in stopping drownings at sea to Australia’s north.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles said it was important not to allow Australia’s actions in helping Syrian refugees and reduci­ng the sum of global human misery to reopen the people-smugglers’ route between Indo­nesia and Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There is no way that we could say that that was happening when we saw a human tragedy play out on our borders over the last few years, there is no way in which the journey between Java and Christmas Island contributes to a better world,” Mr Marles told Sky News yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Seeing hundreds and ult­im­ately thousands of people die on our border is unambiguously a bad thing and the role that Nauru and Manus have played in that has been absolutely critical.” The bipartisan support for not ­allowing those who came to ­Australia illegally by <b>boat</b> to get residency as a result of the Syrian <b>refugee</b> crisis underlines the importance of limiting illegal arrivals to allow room for humanitarian actions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to the latest immig­ration figures, the number of refug­ees who arrived in Australia illegally by <b>boat</b> and were granted visas has dropped from a peak of 4949 in 2012-13 to just one in 2014-15. In the years between 2008 and last year, the number of visas granted to refugees who were sponsored or for family reunions was virtually eliminated to make way for those who arrived illegally by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2008-09, there were 4511 ­humanitarian visas granted for family reunion and only 209 for <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2012-13, the number of sponsored or family reunion <b>refugee</b> visas dropped to 503 while visas for those who arrived by <b>boat</b> peaked at 4949. In the financial year 2013-14, after the election, the number of visas for <b>boat</b> arrivals dropped to 545 and family re­unions bounced back to 4515.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2014-15, when there was only one people-smuggler <b>boat</b> arrival in Australian waters, the humanit­arian intake for family reunion went to 5007 and only one visa was given to someone who arrived ­illegally by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles, who steered a <b>boat</b> turnback policy through the ALP national conference two months ago, said “it is essential that the commitment that was made that people who come by <b>boat</b> who go to Nauru and Manus will not come to Australia is maintained”.“Difficult decisions have to be made but they also, in making them, create the space for gener­osity to be the guide and that’s what we’ve seen this week,” he said. “The way in which Australia has gone about it is a debate that has been characterised by generosity, and I just think that is a wonderf­ul development.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Room for compassion now angst has gone</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>EXCLUSIVE: SARAH MARTIN, JARED OWENS, ADDITIONAL REPORTING: ROSIE LEWIS, BRENDAN NICHOLSON, JOE KELLY, AGENCIES   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Room for compassion now angst has gone</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> advocate Paris Aristotle says the successful closure of the people-smuggling trade has allowe­d the community to respond­ compassionately to the Syrian crisis, with the Coal­ition and Labor insisting tough border control means <b>asylum</b>-seekers who have arrived by <b>boat</b> cannot be resettled in Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Aristotle, who advised the Gillard government, will be part of a new <b>refugee</b> resettlement advisory council that will oversee Australia’s permanent intake of 12,000 people from the Middle Eastern conflict.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Praising the government’s decisio­n as a world-leading example­, Mr Aristotle told The Australian its “incredibly generous” response to the crisis was made easier by the control now asserted over our borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Abbott and Labor’s immig­ration spokesman Richard Marles yesterday reaffirmed their commitment to the government’s hardline turnback policy, with a bipartisan pledge not to soften the approach to refugees who had arrive­d by <b>boat</b> to Australia and remained in detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rejecting the pleas of the <span class="companylink">Australian Human Rights Commission</span> and the Greens to release Syrians held in immigration detentio­n, the Prime Minister said the government would not do anything that encouraged “the evil trade of people-smuggling”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There’s a world of difference between people in that situation and people who have done a deal with people-smugglers to go way beyond the country of first asylum­,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott will meet today with leaders from community and church groups, along with service providers, to discuss a ­national approach­ to resettling the refug­ees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The meeting would determine “exactly what we need to do to ensure­ that people coming to Australia from the conflict zone can swiftly and effect­ively integ­rate into our country”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Aristotle, appointed by the former Labor government to respond to the heavy flow of ­<b>asylum</b>-seeker boats coming to Australia, said the country had moved away from much of the “hysteria” surrounding <b>boat</b> arrivals during the six-year Labor government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I think the fact there has not been a large number of boats ­arriving consistently, and without the added dimension of many sinking and people drowning and the controversy and distress that surrounds all of that, it has created the space for a different discussion about how to respond to a crisis like this one,” Mr Aristotle told The Australian. Mr Aristotle, who heads the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture, was charged by then prime minister Julia Gillard to develop an <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy with former defence chief Angus Houston and former foreign affairs secretary Michael L’Estrange.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The touchstone issue for everyone is: are we managing it or is it being determined by other people and, in that case, people-smugglers?” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That is the bit that generates the greatest degree of angst in the community. With that being less so, then people are more relaxed about this. It’s when people feel it is out of control, and in that case being dictated by people-smugglers, that they get their backs up about it.” Mr Marles said it was “essential” that <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b> were denied permanent resettlement in Australia. “It would be an enormous mistake to come out of all of this and think that the reopening of that journey represented a compassionate, a humane, a good thing, because it just plainly isn’t,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Seeing hundreds and ultimately thousands of people die on our border is unambiguously a bad thing and the role that Nauru and Manus have played in (stopping) that has been absolutely critical.” AHRC president Gillian Triggs called for Syrians in immigration detention to be “treated equally” as refugees deserving of protection, a statement echoed by Greens leader Richard Di Natale.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“One group is behind razor wire, another group is on the TV news every night,’’ Senator Di Natale said. “That’s the difference. We connect with one group as humans and another group have been completely dehumanised.” Professor Triggs also warned that it was “contradictory” to accept refugees while bombing <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>-held regions of Syria, which would “almost invariably” lead to more refugees and civilian deaths.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amid activists’ claims that Australia’s resettlement of 12,000 refugees paled in comparison with countries such as Germany, Social Services Minister Scott Morrison said the numbers were “not comparable” as Australia was offering a “very sophisticated and integrated package” of permanent resettlement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We just don’t allow someone to come across the border and pitch a tent and give them a bottle of water and a sandwich. That is not how this works,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although Germany expects to receive about 800,000 <b>asylum</b> claims this year, Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to resettle only a fraction within her borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">European Commission</span> has unveiled a plan to resettle 160,000 refugees across the continent, with countries that refuse facing financial penalties. However, Ms Merkel said the 160,000 cap should be removed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s not possible to set a limit and to say, ‘We don’t care beyond that and it is then an issue for two or three or four countries’,” said Ms Merkel, whose country would resettle about 31,000 of the 160,000 refugees. “This must be a European responsibility, and only then will all member states care about the causes of migration.” Britain plans to resettle 20,000 Syrians over five years from <b>refugee</b> camps outside the EU and not other European states. France would accept 24,000 refugees and Spain almost 15,000 under the EC plan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">UN High Commissioner for Refugees</span> representative to Jordan, Andrew Harper, said the exodus to Europe was triggered in part by donors not giving enough aid to Syrian <b>refugee</b> camps in the Middle East. “The smartest move would have been for Europe and the Gulf states and everyone to provide more support to countries like Jordan and Lebanon two or three years ago when we were asking for it,” Mr Harper said. “(The donors) sought the cheap option … to provide us with peanuts in order to deal with the worst humanitarian situation for decades.” The United Arab Emirates defended its “sustainable and humane” record on helping refugees, saying that since 2011 it had given or pledged more than $US630 million ($896m) and granted residency permits to more than 100,000 Syrians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">US Secretary of State John Kerry said his government was “committed to increasing the number (of Syrian refugees) that we will take”.Joe Hockey estimated that resettling the 12,000 refugees from camps near Syria would cost between $600m and $700m. “I’m the son of a <b>refugee</b> and this is what we do as a compassionate nation and I hope to God we always do it,” the Treasurer said.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MICHELLE PAINE   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HOBART man Heetham Hekmat can imagine the suffering of Syrian people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He left Iraq as a teenager after his boyhood friend died in his arms after being shot.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The danger forced his family to flee the country and they spent seven years in Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“For a lot of people, the dream is for one hour without hearing a gun,” Mr Hekmat said. “I’ve had enough of war and death and blood.” Multicultural leaders have welcomed the State Government’s announcement it would contribute money to the Syrian <b>refugee</b> crisis and funding to settle people under the Safe Haven Enterprise <span class="companylink">Visa</span> [SHEV] program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But they said people already in Australia needing settlement under the SHEV were living in limbo and needed security similar to that given to refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The State Government said it would settle about 500 people under the SHEV, including Syrian refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia will take 12,000 refugees who have fled Iraq and Syria in a $700 million resettlement plan. SHEV was in place before the latest Syrian crisis, and now would be shared between accepted refugees, for example from Syria, and those seeking <b>asylum</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Multicultural Council of Tasmania said SHEV was not designed for new refugees who did not need many of the benefits.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The interests of <b>asylum</b> seekers already in Australia that have come by <b>boat</b> are supposed to be covered by the SHEV program that was designed to address their lack of rights. Some people have misunderstood that this program could cover the new intake of Syrian refugees as well,” chair Alphonse Mulumba said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Thousands of <b>asylum</b> seekers have been living in Australia in a terrible situation for many years, with no rights to work and no pathway to permanent residency. We must not forget these people.” The <span class="companylink">Tasmanian Council of Social Service</span> said the social service sector hoped to work with government on efforts to welcome refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Past experience also shows that Tasmanians have a very high rate of volunteering their assistance in <b>refugee</b> settlement activities and no doubt both experienced and new volunteers will step up now to help,” chief executive officer Kym Goodes said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Hekmat, 27, said he spent his first four years in Syria sleeping on the bus where he managed to get a job, supporting his family. They waited six years to be told they could come to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“These people are really desperate for help. However I explain it, you can never imagine the situation they are in every day,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Some Syrians don’t have any food, they’ve been in a siege for months, no electricity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“People just want a safe and normal life.” Mr Hekmat, of Glenorchy, arrived in Tasmania nearly three years ago knowing only “yes” and “no” in English.Now he studies at the <span class="companylink">University of Tasmania</span> and is a team leader at Subway. His three younger siblings and parents also live in Hobart.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM refuses to set timeline for Iraq air campaign</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Phillip Coorey   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>571 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Commonwealth and state officials will meet next week to discuss the resettlement of 12,000 refugees from Syria who, the federal government has confirmed, will be predominantly Christian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the same time, there was confusion at senior levels about how long Australia would stay involved in the air war above Iraq, which has now been extended to bombing <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> targets inside Syria.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Defence Minister Kevin Andrews said early on Thursday he expected Australia's presence to last for two or three years. Prime Minister Tony Abbott moved quickly to suggest there should be no timeline.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We don't want to put a particular timeline on this, other than to say they'll be there as needed but no longer than necessary," said Mr Abbott, who was in Papua New Guinea for the Pacific Island Forum.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This was the same language John Howard used when asked how long Australia would stay in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said: "We should be thinking in terms of years, not months," and Employment Minister Eric Abetz said the media should focus on the issue of IS rather than quibble over the timeline.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Australia first committed to the air war above Iraq a year ago and sent SAS troops, Mr Abbott said the involvement could last "many many months".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Wednesday, Mr Abbott announced Australia would accept 12,000 refugees from the crisis on a one-off basis in addition to the nation's annual humanitarian intake of 13,750 refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The states have offered to help and, on Thursday, South Australia said it would take up to 900 of the Syrians, while the Victorian government has offered to take between 4000 and 5000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The focus would be on bringing to Australia persecuted minorities who Social Services Minister and former immigration minister Scott Morrison said were "predominantly Middle Eastern Christians".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Middle Eastern Christians who have been run out of town in the Middle East now for many years," Mr Morrison said. "That is where our focus will be. That is not to say there won't be people of other faiths who are taken under the program, as there already [have been] under the program to date."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The combined cost of the expanded <b>refugee</b> intake and the extended air war will be about $1 billion over the next four years. Treasurer Joe Hockey said the extra spending would be reconciled in the mid-year budget update to be released in December.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott dismissed suggestions that his government should now also release Syrian refugees detained in Nauru and Manus Island, saying they will never be repatriated because they tried to reach Australia by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There is just a world of difference and we will never ever do anything that encourages the evil trade of people smuggling," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens MP Adam Bandt asked in Parliament about a Syrian man who left his wife and child hiding in their house in Syria in the hope of bringing them after him. He has been detained in Nauru for two years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Friday, Mr Abbott, Mr Morrison, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and parliamentary secretary Concetta Fierravanti-Wells will meet with resettlement agencies, ethnic community leaders and religious groups to discuss the integration of the extra refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Uniting Care National Director Lin Hatfield Dodds thanked Mr Abbott for the humanitarian gesture.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Argy-bargy in European Parliament as Australia’s <b>boat</b> solution lauded</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CHARLES MIRANDA in London  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>326 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gold Coast Bulletin</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GCBULL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GoldCoast</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian Government’s policy of “turning back the boats” has been used by right-wing MPs in the <span class="companylink">European Parliament</span> as the best solution to deal with the European <b>refugee</b> crisis and stop the threat of <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> and potential home soil attacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">European Commission</span> Jean-Claude Juncker was delivering the state of the union address in Strasbourg with his speech dominated by plans to resettle 160,000 migrants largely from Syria and currently in Europe looking to be resettled.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But as he spoke he was heckled by, among others, the right-wing UKIP leader Nigel Farage. A rattled Mr Juncker received wide applause when he broke from his address to label Mr Farage’s opinion as “worthless”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“You can interrupt me from time to time,” he said. “I will not at each time respond to what you are saying because what you are saying is worthless.” Mr Farage said he had warned months ago <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> were now using the <b>refugee</b> route to put jihadists on EU soil and called for the Australian policy of stopping and turning back the boats before they land.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We must be mad,” Mr Farage said. “We must stop the boats coming as the Australians did. To suggest that getting rid of a few EU regulations is going to change our minds – unless you give us back control of our borders the Brits in the next year will vote to leave.” In his speech, Mr Farage said Mr Juncker got it wrong.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“All migrants have to do is throw their passports in the Mediterranean and say they’re from Syria”, he said, in response to Germany’s offer to take Syrian refugees.“As I warned you in April, the EU’s common <b>asylum</b> policy sets its terms so wide that to say that anyone who sets a foot on EU soil can stay.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Things Syrians should know about us</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>552 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are a few things Australia's quota of 12,000 Syrian refugees will need to know about our political system before they make their way to our friendly shores in time for Christmas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Syrian refugees will be welcome* but will first undergo the "usual health, security and character checks", Prime Minister Tony Abbott told Parliament on Wednesday.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We will bring people as quickly as we can but we do owe to it the Australian people to get these checks done."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Their bona fides could be checked by our new "national security weapon", of such sophistication, it will be able to put a name to the face of terror suspects, murderers and armed robbers, just like in the movies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Justice Minister Michael Keenan announced the government will spend $18.5 million to establish the National Facial Biometric Matching Capability - a kind of grown-up game of Guess Who? - that allows police and spies to check photos on identity documents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It might not be the only test they will face. Coalition backbencher George Christiansen suspects some will pretend to be Christian just to get on the <b>refugee</b> resettlement list, unlike the rest of us who pretend to be religious to get our kids into posh private schools.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Christiansen believes there should be a values test for refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We don't have Christians that are willing to wage jihad on Australia," Christensen said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If new migrants are able to hold two seemingly contradictory beliefs in their head at the same time, it could help them fit into Australian life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Take Queensland LNP senator Matt Canavan, who stirred up some mischief on climate change in the Senate while everyone else was preoccupied by the Syrian humanitarian crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia should increase its exports of coal to help the environment, he said, as he moved a Senate motion supporting the coal industry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Queensland's black coal is one of the most energy-efficient forms of coal in the world so "we owe it to the world to mine more coal in Australia" and anti-coal activists trying to halt production are actually hurting the environment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are a constitutional monarchy, with a Queen who wasn't born here and has never lived here. Her husband is a bit odd but we gave him a knighthood anyway. Queen Elizabeth became the longest reigning monarch in British history on Wednesday and as her subjects, the Australian Parliament marked the occasion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The Queen has been a beacon of stability for more than six decades," Abbott told Parliament.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"As we mark this extraordinary milestone the Queen's admiration for the Australian people is returned with respect and affection."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Australia, our political leaders call each other terrible names, and it's a good thing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Here he is, the trade union's muppet," Social Services Minister Scott Morrison said of Opposition Leader Bill Shorten during question time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor's bespectacled Pat Conroy objected to his leader being compared to a famous brand of Hollywood puppet and Speaker Tony Smith agreed Morrison should withdraw the comparison.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I withdraw and I thank Beaker for his interjection," Morrison said to howls of laughter from the government benches.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">*Unless you arrived here by <b>boat</b>, in which case, an uncomfortable stay in Nauru or Manus Island still awaits you.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>It is time to support the Kurds and hit their medieval enemy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Paul Sheehan  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>735 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aylan Kurdi was a Kurd. Before his parents took him on a fateful <b>boat</b> journey towards Europe, he grew up in Kobane, the Syrian border city that became famous as the place where Kurds mounted a stand against <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kobane was saved by Kurdish militia, basically civilians with arms, who fought house-to-house against jihadists who wanted to eradicate them even though they are Muslim. The town is now in a Kurdish enclave surrounded by territory controlled by IS or an indifferent Turkey across the border.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Kurds, in Syria and Iraq, are the only people who have been able to stand up to the genocide of IS, because they have been fighting for their national survival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kurdish militia, men and women, have not only carved out a Kurdish state from the chaos in Iraq and Syria, they have retaken territory held by IS.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is telling that Aylan Kurdi's father, Abdullah, who lost his 35-year-old wife, Rehan, and his young sons Galip and Aylan, when their <b>boat</b> capsized, returned to Kobane after the tragedy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are about 7 million Kurds in the two Kurdish territories (about 5 million in Iraq and 2 million in Syria) and these territories are also safe havens for most of the remaining Christians in Iraq, whose population has plunged from 1.4 million to less than 400,000 in 40 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia should support the Kurds. They don't need <b>refugee</b> status. They want to keep the country they have created. They need financial support.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The best way to support the Kurds, in addition to financial aid, is to tacitly recognise that a Kurdish state already exists. It is functional. It is a Muslim bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism. It is a protectorate for oppressed Christian and Yazidi minorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Obama administration has been pathetic in its support for the Kurds, providing a trickle of belated aid when Kurdish communities faced extinction. Australia should not follow this example.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian government should include the Kurds in its response to the enormous threat posed by IS, a response that has to be military, humanitarian and diplomatic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Military: Australia should extend its military strikes to Syria. Firepower is the only tactic that has stopped IS. Air strikes give respite to ground forces fighting IS, and degrade its capacity to deploy openly and in numbers. Only committed Shiite and Kurdish militias, fighting for their own communities, have contained IS's need for territory.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Humanitarian: More aid needs to be sent to the region, obviously, and increasing Australia's intake of refugees from Syria also needs to be increased.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The domestic consensus has already been achieved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Talk about compassion is cheap but resettling refugees is expensive. The 2015-16 budget has allocated $660 million to run our humanitarian settlement program for 13,750 refugees. This does not include the cost of social welfare benefits to refugees, who have a high rate of welfare take-up for several years after arrival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thus doubling the <b>refugee</b> intake would cost about $1 billion a year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Diplomatic: Australia should tacitly accept that Kurdistan is a reality and Iraq is an unreality. Australia should look with disapproval at the actions of Turkey, which has been a sieve for Muslims travelling to join IS and spent more resources bombing Turkish Kurds than fighting IS. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, with their enormous revenues from oil, have accepted zero refugees from Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To staunch the single main source of a crisis that appears only likely to grow, David Kilcullen, Australia's most prominent counter-insurgency expert, believes there will have to be a more concerted military intervention against IS.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a paper, "What Are We Fighting For?", published earlier this year, Kilcullen said there was no way of avoiding increased military intervention if IS was to lose its aura of conquest. He called for "a targeted effort using a combination of air power, special operations, military assistance and a limited number of combat troops to destroy the ability of ISIS to carry out its strategy of territorial control".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Kurds already contribute to the hardest part of this equation - boots on the ground - and provided a staunch bulwark against barbarous medievalism. They are the first line of defence of our civilisation.</p>
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<span class="companylink">Twitter</span>: @Paul_Sheehan_</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Guiding principles on how to treat refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SIMON LONGSTAFF - Dr Simon Longstaff is executive director of The Ethics Centre.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1061 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our response to <b>asylum</b> seekers from Syria needs to be rational, not emotional.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It may seem harsh to question the heartfelt public response to the image of Aylan Kurdi lying dead on a Turkish beach. However, the motivating force of compassion can easily be reduced to futile gestures unless spliced onto a set of actionable principles that can withstand rational scrutiny and the test of time, long after the wave of sympathy has passed.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr. Abbott's announcement of Australia's decision to accept 12,000 Syrian refugees for permanent resettlement is a significant response to the exodus of <b>asylum</b> seekers now escaping from Syria and its environs. However, a solid assessment of the quality of Australia's offer can only be made if we establish a foundation of principles on which to graft our sympathies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In general, the surest approach to articulating such a foundation is to return to the bedrock of whatever institution is meant to serve our collective human interests - in this case, the institution of sanctuary or, in its modern guise, <b>asylum</b>. Using this approach, I would like to suggest that <b>asylum</b> is fundamentally about the public and personal good of human safety. As such:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1. Those who meet the objective condition of fleeing from persecution and oppression, whether arising in conditions of peace or war, are entitled to seek <b>asylum</b>. Their claims for <b>asylum</b> may never be deemed as "unlawful" or "illegal". To apply these labels to such people is wrong and involves a profound misunderstanding of the law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2. The ways in which people seek <b>asylum</b> may, in some circumstances, be illegal - however that does not make the <b>asylum</b> seekers themselves "illegal". Indeed, a focus on the legality of the means employed to seek <b>asylum</b> is a relatively new concern. At the height of the Cold War, I never heard the representatives of the liberal democracies complaining that defectors and <b>asylum</b> seekers should be condemned for breaking the laws of the countries whose borders they breached when escaping from behind the Iron Curtain. But, moving on ...</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">3. Those who have the capacity to offer <b>asylum</b> are obliged to do so when a bona fide request is made. <b>Asylum</b> is an offer of safety (not a promise of prosperity). Nearly everything hangs on the obligation to keep an <b>asylum</b> seeker safe. This is central to the criticism of the conditions under which the Australian government holds people arriving irregularly by <b>boat</b>. To subject an <b>asylum</b> seeker to a regime of indefinite detention in conditions like those on Manus Island and Nauru clearly fails this minimal test. The evidence of mental illness and physical abuse suffered by those held in such places makes this clear.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">4. Not everyone claiming <b>asylum</b> is a bona fide <b>refugee</b>. Some people making such a claim may merely be seeking a more prosperous future than they would otherwise have attained at home. There is no duty to offer <b>asylum</b> to such people. Indeed, to do so might deny opportunity to those with a well-founded claim. However, given our inability (at least on the high seas) to distinguish between those who are entitled to <b>asylum</b> and those who are not, we should give all the "benefit of the doubt". To accept an illegitimate claimant is a lesser evil than it would be to deny <b>asylum</b> to a person with a legitimate claim.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">5. Finally, the compassionate urge to avoid preventable deaths among those seeking <b>asylum</b> (e.g. at sea) is a worthy one and should neither be mocked nor denied. That said, the means employed to achieve this end should be consistent with the other principles outlined above.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What effect might these principles have if applied to the refugees seeking sanctuary in Europe?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our starting point must be the distinctive nature of the cause of the great displacement now under way. Prime Minister Tony Abbott has labelled <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> (the Arabic equivalent of <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>) a "death cult" and has compared them unfavourably to the Nazis. Australian Defence Force personnel have been posted in Iraq at the request of the Iraqi government to degrade and destroy this pernicious power. We know <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> is not constrained by established international borders and their actions in one place (Iraq), and our now extended response, are generating effects not just there but also in the cauldron of instability and murderous conflict that Syria has become. So, under any reasonable test, those fleeing from this conflict are refugees and their claims for <b>asylum</b> are lawful and legitimate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, as a country that is directly involved in the conflict in Iraq and Syria, Australia can be said to have a particular obligation to these refugees as their plight is an unintended consequence of our conduct - no matter how just it might be. Given this, an ordinary or marginal response will be inadequate. Equally, our response must be both equitable and proportionate. The mayhem is indifferent to the religion, ethnicity, nationality, age or gender of its victims. And so should we be. Any attempt to define a "preferred cohort" of refugees who might receive the benefit of sanctuary will have to be specifically justified - and I doubt that can be done without inviting the criticism that our aid is sectarian and self-serving.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an ideal world, Australia would have developed a comprehensive regional solution based in part on mutual interests, shared ethical obligations and on our neighbours' recognition of our willingness to do our fair share of the "heavy lifting". We might then have led an effort to bring many more people from Europe to our region. Perhaps our response to this crisis will be a turning point - allowing us to prove ourselves a good example and a good partner for our region.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Given our positive obligation to offer <b>asylum</b> to those whose objective circumstances give rise to a legitimate claim and given the vast size of the problem that we are involved with, Australia should be generous in its offer of refuge - if only by adopting special measures to increase our humanitarian intake well beyond the current cap. Finally, we should ensure that the refugees' passage to Australia is safe. In this case, instead of stopping the boats we might, perhaps, send them.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Agencies scramble to test bona fides</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAUL MALEY NATIONAL SECURITY EDITOR   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>528 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SECURITY Security agencies responsible for checking the bona fides of the expecte­d 12,000 Syrian refugees are likely to have to divert resources from other areas of their operations to cope with the surge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Abbott said the government would try to bring the first of the new migrants to Australia “as quickly as possible’’.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, he said haste should not be at the expense of the usual character, health and security checks required of new migrants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is important that we bring in people who are going to be contributors to the Australian community,’’ the Prime Minister said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is important that we don’t bring in anyone from this troubled region who might ultimately be a problem for the Australian community, as far as we humanly can.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So, we will do it as quickly as possible but the checks have to be made and I think the Australian people would expect no less of us.’’ Domestic security agencies such as the Australian Security Intell­igence Organisation face a huge task vetting the 12,000 new arrivals, many of whom are likely to have limited or no personal docu­mentation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sources said ASIO’s task would be made slightly easier by the program’s emphasis on women, children and families, who present a lower risk profile than other refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Extra funding to cover the impost would be of little use to ASIO as it takes years to recruit and train the additional intelligence officers, translators and other staff required to process such claims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As such, it is likely ASIO will have to divert staff and resources from other areas, including processing the backlog of <b>asylum</b>- seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b> and who remain in the community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ASIO has also been extremely busy monitoring and investigating the expanding pool of Sunni rad­icals who might be inspired by ­<span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> to carry out terror attack­s in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In February, Mr Abbott revealed that ASIO had 400 high-­priority investigations on its books, a surge driven by the rise of <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>, the terror group fuelling the present <b>refugee</b> crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One government source contacted by The Australian said most refugees would be taken from well-established <b>refugee</b> camps in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, where agencies such as the <span class="companylink">UN High Commissioner for Refugees</span> have been documenting <b>asylum</b>-seekers, potentially making the agency’s job easier.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is ASIO’s practice to conduct security assessments after Immig­ration officials have performed­ their assessments, a process that gives the security agency more information to work with.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, thorough security checks take months or even years to perform. With many <b>asylum</b>-seekers disposing of their identity documents, intelligence officers can face a huge task simply to establish the identity of a would-be migrant, let alone delving into their associations and their pasts.One source familiar with ASIO’s processes said the checks performed would be “as rigorous as you could make it’’, but that often there was a limit to what one could know about <b>asylum</b>-seekers, particularly if there was pressure to process their claims quickly.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Boatpeople here are not eligible for humanitarian visas</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SARAH MARTIN   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>291 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LIMITATIONS <b>Asylum</b>-seekers who arrived in Australia by <b>boat</b>, including Syrians and Iraqis, will not be eligible for any of the 12,000 humanitarian visas on offer to refugees displaced by the Middle Eastern conflict.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 30,000 people classified by government as illegal maritime arrivals are also not eligible to apply for permanent residency, having the option only to apply for a temporary protection visa or a safe haven enterprise visa.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government has in place a “fast-track” process for IMAs who arrived between August 2012 and January last year, enabling them to apply for temporary protection here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>asylum</b>-seekers are invited to apply according to the order in which they arrived in Australia, with priority given to those in immigration detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens urged the Abbott government to give Syrian and Iraqi families already in Australia on bridging visas and in detention the chance for permanent resettlement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Greens immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young welcomed the extra 12,000 humanitarian places for those fleeing the conflict in Syria and Iraq as a “step in the right direction”, she said attention needed to be given to those waiting in Australia to have claims determined.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’m very disappointed at how slow it has been,” she said. “The latest figures we got through Senate estimates was that 17 people have been given their visas — then remember they’re on TPVs.“There are a number of Syrians in that group of 30,000, just as there are a number of Syrians still in immigration detention. I would like to see the government in this context to give those Syrian and Iraqi families an opportunity to be given permanent visas.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>SAFE HAVEN AS PM OPENS DOOR</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS National Political Reporter   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>409 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gold Coast Bulletin</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GCBULL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GoldCoast</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">REFUGEES fleeing persecution in Syria and Iraq will become permanent Australian residents from Christmas this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an extraordinary humanitarian gesture, made possible by Australia stopping illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals, Prime Minister Tony Abbott confirmed the nation will accept a special intake of 12,000 Syrian refugees on top of the standard 13,750 intake.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, who are registered with the UNHCF, will make up those who will arrive in Australia in December, with the entire intake expected to be relocated by June next year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senior government officials will be deployed to Jordan to conduct interviews, security and health checks on potential refugees before they are flown on commercial airlines to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ASIO officers will also fly to the Middle East to ensure appropriate screening. Refugees will have to read an Australian values statement and undergo a cultural orientation before arriving.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The rescue mission will cost at least $700 million over the next four years on top of $44 million in funding that will be provided to aid agencies to help more than 240,000 dislocated refugees survive winter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Women, children and families facing certain death as a persecuted minority will be given priority over single men because they have been deemed most in need.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The increase, backed by the entire Parliament, will see Australia’s <b>refugee</b> intake for 2015-16 hit 25,750.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Government’s carefully thought-out humanit-arian policy, which took sev-eral days and multiple global meetings, exceeded Labor’s proposal of taking 10,000 extra refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some refugees will be billeted to church groups while others will be provided government housing in metropolitan, urban and rural areas. Most will be placed in Syrian communities to give them the best chance of succeeding in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">NSW is poised to take the most refugees accepting at least 4000, but Mike Baird’s office said the Premier was prepared to take more if asked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Sydney suburbs of Auburn, Lidcombe, Fairfield, Punchbowl and Liverpool all have strong Syrian communities. All refugees will have permanent residency and access to the same benefits as Australians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cheers could be heard from the Government party room yesterday morning when Mr Abbott announced the policy to his MPs.The decision was made after Immigration Minister Peter Dutton received briefings from <span class="companylink">UN</span> officials followed by lengthy meetings of Cabinet’s national security committee and full Cabinet.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Clarity sought on separate visa programs</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>170 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE  Tasmanian Government must differentiate between the 500 refugees it said it would ­resettle at the weekend and the humanitarian intake that was ann­ounced yesterday, says ­Migrant Resource Centre chief Alison O’Neill.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Safe Haven Enterprise Visas announced on Saturday were for <b>asylum</b> seekers or “<b>boat</b> people” ­already in Australia while the humanitarian intake was for people who were seeking to ­escape a conflict, she said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Safe Haven scheme is a temporary visa to allow <b>asylum</b> seekers freedom to work as long as they move to a regional area such as Tasmania.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There appears to be some confusion between the SHEV and the humanitarian scheme and they are two completely different groups,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shelter Tasmania executive officer Pattie Chugg welcomed the state’s acceptance of refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers, but echoed calls by the Greens for more investment in public housing to meet the demand.“Any successful settlement requires a co-ordinated effort that includes housing,” Ms Chugg said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Cnb syria help</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Tillett   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kind-hearted Perth residents have begun to ask how they can help Syrian and Iraqi refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One woman posted on Channel 7’s <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> page that she had three bedrooms available for refugees. But community organisations are still evaluating what resources will be needed to cope with the influx.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Canberra has worked with settlement services agencies for many years to help almost 14,000 refugees annually find their feet in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Syrian and Iraqi refugees will have immediate access to housing, welfare, health care and work rights unlike <b>boat</b> arrivals, who were initially denied work rights and provided with limited assistance when they were released to live in the community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two organisations in Perth have responsibility for resettling refugees accepted under the annual humanitarian program: the Metropolitan Migrant Resource Centre at Mirrabooka and the welfare agency Communicare.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eira Clapton, vice-chair of Coalition for <b>Asylum</b> Seekers, Refugees and Detainees, is confident adequate resources would be made available for the new refugees. “I think we can do it,” she said. “The mood of the population is if given an opportunity to assist, we would rise to the challenge.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</span> is urging the public to donate money.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Donate at unrefugees.org.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>SYRIA CRISIS 12,000 refugees to call Australia home</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TORY SHEPHERD POLITICAL EDITOR   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1409 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Persecuted Syrians welcomed as our jets poised to strike IS at its heart AUSTRALIA will welcome the first of 12,000 more refugees by Christmas, and is set to bomb Syria within a week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than four million people have already fled Syria, which is being torn apart by a civil war and the murderous spread of <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>, also called <span class="companylink">Daesh</span>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We are all in the grip of grief,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott said yesterday. “This is a region which is riven with conflict, which is soaked in blood, so you can fully understand why so many people, despite ancient connections with this land, can never go back – and it’s those that can never really go back that we’re focused on.” As part of the US-led coalition, the RAAF is already carrying out air strikes on Iraq and that action will now extend across the border into Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Federal Government announced yesterday it will give 12,000 women, children and families who have fled Syria and Iraq permanent Australian visas as soon as all the right checks have been done.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The move will cost $700 million over four years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although there is no set time frame for bringing people over, a senior Government official told The Advertiser that they should start arriving by Christmas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">About 200,000 of those who have fled have been heading to Europe. The rest are in camps in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Government has also announced an extra $44 million for emergency supplies for the camps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott said the Government wanted to help “persecuted minorities” while also tackling the root cause of their trauma.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We have to act with our heads as well as with our hearts,” he said. “There can be no stability and no end to the persecution and suffering in the Middle East until the <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> death cult is degraded and ultimately destroyed.” Mr Abbott emphasised the armed forces would target IS under a <span class="companylink">UN</span> law that allows for “collective self-defence”, but would not target the “evil” Assad regime, although he expressed hope that one day the Middle East would have “governments that do not commit genocide against their own people nor permit terrorism against ours”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He did not rule out adding ground troops in the future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin said Classic Hornet or Super Hornet planes could be dropping bombs within a week. “For all intents and purposes, they just take a 10-degree left turn when they go on task (in Iraq) and end up over Syria,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Foreign fighters, including Australians fighting with IS, will be potential targets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the <b>refugee</b> intake, senior Government officials told The Advertiser: THOROUGH health, character and security checks would be carried out and all refugees would be interviewed by an Australian immigration official.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ALL refugees would have to sign an Australian values statement committing to democracy, equality, freedom and obeying the law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ENGLISH language was not necessary, although the statement says it is a “unifying element”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The one-off intake was decided after discussions held by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton in Europe. It is on top of the current 13,750 <b>refugee</b> intake, which in turn is set to increase to 18,750 over the next three years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earlier in the day, South Australian Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi, pre-empting the Government’s announcement, said the most vulnerable people in the Middle East were Christians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, Mr Abbott mentioned both Muslim and non-Muslim minorities. “Our focus is on the persecuted minorities who have been displaced and are very unlikely ever to be able to go back to their original homes,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop said the $44 million would support 240,000 refugees living in camps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The advice that we have received is that with the coming winter there are urgent needs to provide basic equipment and support – shelter kits, clean, safe drinking water, food, support for women and girls,” she said. “This way we can relieve some of the burden that the neighbouring countries are bearing as a result of the conflict within Syria and within Iraq.” Federal Labor will support the air strikes and welcomed the <b>refugee</b> announcement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Our compassion should pay no heed to the colour of a person’s skin or the god they pray to,” Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">State Liberal Opposition Leader Steven Marshall welcomed the resettlement of the refugees, as did Premier Jay Weatherill, who said “floods” of people had offered their homes and resources.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His offer of resettling 800 or 900 people still stood, he said, as did his suggestion of using the former Inverbrackie detention centre. Mr Weatherill said the state would also give up to $4 million if all states matched the Federal Government’s $44 million commitment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In other developments, young Australians Osman Haouchar and Oliver Bridgeman, working in Syrian <b>refugee</b> camps, have said they will now try to come home, while in Europe, extreme-Right MPs want the Abbott Government’s policy of <b>boat</b> turnbacks. Heckling European Commissioner Jean-Claude Junker, one of them, Nigel Farage, said that “we must be mad, we must stop the boats coming as the Australians did”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">OUR PAST RESPONSES 1933-1939 More than 7000 Jews fleeing Nazi Germany were resettled. 1947 844 Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians arrive as refugees fleeing Europe. 1948-1955 171,000 migrants fleeing Europe, from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Ukraine and Hungary, resettled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1975 2500 East Timorese taken in during East Timor crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1975-1985 70,000 Asian refugees, mostly Vietnamese, resettled following the Vietnam War.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1989 42,000 Chinese students granted <b>refugee</b> status following Tiananmen Square massacre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1999 4000 Kosovars given temporary <b>refugee</b> status for three months and then returned home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SOURCE: <span class="companylink"><b>Refugee</b> Council of Australia</span></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CIVIL WAR IN THE MID-EAST THE 2011 “Arab Spring’’, which was supposed to usher in a new era of democracy and freedom in the Middle East, sparked protests in Syria which quickly escalated into a civil war ■ A crackdown on protesters by Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad led to citizens taking up arms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ More than 220,000 people have been killed and up to 11 million displaced. ■ Rebel forces which took up arms against the Assad regime include the group now known as <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> or <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>, which occupied territory in Syria and Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ Assad came to power in 2000 following the death of his father, the former president Hafez al-Assad.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ Syrian refugees have spilled over the country’s borders into countries including Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey and many have made perilous journeys to Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ The US has launched an air campaign against IS targets in Syria. The UK has used drones to attack British Jihadis in Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ The civil war has torn apart a once mighty nation, that 2000 years ago controlled much of Turkey, Egypt and the Middle East.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AUSSIE AIR STRIKES Q: When will Royal Australian Air Force operations begin over Syria and what will they target?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A: Operations could begin within a week, using laser-guided and “dumb” bombs to attack <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>, or <span class="companylink">Daesh</span>, forces threatening Iraqi territory. The aircraft will be restricted to operations around IS strongholds such as Al Hasakah and Al Mar’a, close to the border with Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Q: Why is Australia extending its air operations from Iraq into Syria? A: IS occupies territory on both sides of the border between Iraq and Syria and, left unchecked, would continue to expand. Australian air strike operations have conducted 770 missions in Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Q: What aircraft will be involved?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A: Australia’s Air Task Group consists of six F/A-18 Hornet aircraft, backed up by a KC-30A multi-role tanker transport and an E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Q: What happens if an RAAF plane is shot down over Syria?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A: Coalition rapid-reaction special-forces search and rescue teams are constantly on standby to extract the crew of downed aircraft from behind enemy lines.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Q: Could Australians fighting with <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> be the target of air strikes by Australian aircraft?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A: Prime Minister Tony Abbott has warned that anybody fighting with the terrorist group could be the target of coalition military operations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Q: Could civilians be killed in the air strikes? A: The RAAF will try not to harm civilians but this cannot always be avoided.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Abbott may silence critics with help for the desperate</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TONY WRIGHT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>543 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">COMMENT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cynics should take a rest day. Tony Abbott, in choosing to resettle 12,000 Syrian refugees permanently in Australia, has acted as a prime minister.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has stared down the extremists in his party and their supporters, who, lacking apparent empathy for the suffering, didn't want to lift a finger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has taken a path - relatively swiftly, whatever the sceptics' view that he had to be forced over four days by public pressure and the opposition to change his mind - that few enough nations have found themselves willing or able to take.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With European countries facing no choice but to deal with an overwhelming tide of refugees, even Britain, with a population of 64 million and a gross domestic product more than twice as large as Australia's, has offered to take only 20,000 Syrian refugees - over five years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As has become widely remarked upon, the six wealthiest Arab states - Qatar (the world's wealthiest nation on a GDP purchasing power per capita basis), Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman - have taken not one Syrian <b>refugee</b>, according to <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ill-equipped countries such as Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey have shouldered much of the burden to date. Australia's decision, then - if Germany's breathtaking and high-stakes generosity is set aside for a moment - places it proportionately at the forefront of international response to the current crisis ... and from the other side of the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As a humanitarian gesture, it can reasonably take its place alongside Malcolm Fraser's decision to allow Vietnamese <b>boat</b> people to land and stay in Australia in the late 1970s, Bob Hawke's lone choice to grant refuge to Chinese students after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, and is even more decisive than John Howard's employment of temporary <b>asylum</b> for East Timorese refugees and Kosovars in 1999.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has not often been this way, though Australia took tens of thousands of displaced people from a destroyed Europe in the years after World War II.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having reported from Cambodian and Lao <b>refugee</b> camps in Thailand during the 1980s, from the genocide of Rwanda and the subsequent immense <b>refugee</b> emergencies in neighbouring Zaire and Tanzania from 1994 to 1996 - larger in number than Europe is currently experiencing - and from varied other broken places in the years since, this reporter cannot forget the helpless frustration of many hundreds of thousands of people who knew the world had all but ignored or forgotten them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those of a mind to do so may chafe at the knowledge that Australia is bombing Syria as it takes its 12,000 refugees from Europe, may debate how and why Mr Abbott came to change his mind about the number of refugees Australia will accept, and may recoil from the incongruity of a nation that grants <b>asylum</b> to some while imprisoning others on distant islands. We might ponder, too, what happens when even more refugees pour into Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But cynicism deserves a rest day concerning the Abbott government's decision to grant a permanent home to 12,000 desperate people. Having escaped Syria, they might have found no other.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Refugees' plight exposed in play</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By ANTONY FIELD   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>319 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our television screens and newspaper are full of images and stories about the desperate plight of refugees seeking a better life in anther country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Debate over the treatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers has raged, with the conditions at Australian off-shore detention centres and the thousands of refugees waiting to board trains in Hungary under the spotlight.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Theatre is a great vehicle to explore the debate, with Wollongong playwright Dhananjaya Karunarathne creating A Sri Lankan Tamil <b>Asylum</b> Seeker's Story as Performed by Australian Actors Under the Guidance of a Sinhalese Director.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The show, starring Adam Booth and Anthony Gooley, will be staged at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from September 16-26. It is directed by Karunarathne and David Williams (The Table of Knowledge).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Karunarathne, who migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka in 2003, has written a funny, confronting and searing study in political correctness inspired by real life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The civil war in Sri Lanka is something I grew up with, and my perspective was shaped by constant exposure to the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict," he said. "After arriving in Australia, I was able to see the crisis from the Australian context in that Tamil people are coming to Australia seeking <b>asylum</b>. I've met many <b>asylum</b> seekers, refugees and minority groups, which helped me to see the issue in many different ways."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The play follows two young Australian performers as they grapple with the story of Tamil <b>refugee</b> Raja, his journey to Australia in an unseaworthy <b>boat</b>, and his final meeting in Villawood Detention Centre with Garth, a <b>refugee</b>-studies student.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Through its kaleidoscope of storytelling styles, it challenges well-intentioned good Samaritans whilst exposing ignorance and the misrepresentation of minority groups.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The play was originally developed and presented in 2014 through the Make It @Merrigong program, Studio Sessions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tickets range from $29 to $49.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Premiers offer up relief to refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>KATHERINE TOWERS, MEREDITH BOOTH   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>416 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two premiers have opened their doors to Syrians fleeing the Middle East conflict, offering temporary housing to potentially hundreds of refugees and placing added pressure on Tony Abbott to lift Australia’s overall <b>refugee</b> intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Victorian Premier Daniel ­Andrews wrote to the Prime Minister suggesting the army base at Puckapunyal in central Victoria as a potential resettling site for ­Syrians as South Australia’s Jay Weatherill told Mr Abbott the former Inverbrackie immigration ­detention centre in the Adelaide Hills was “ready to go”.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a letter to Mr Abbott, Mr ­Andrews urged the Prime Minister to increase the number of refugees accepted in Australia to ensure Syrian refugees in need of protection were additional to the annual intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“To this end, I would encourage the federal government to consult with Victoria and the settlement agencies in developing any ­arrangements,” Mr Andrews writes in the letter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This may include the temporary housing of refugees in defence facilities, such as Puckapunyal army base, before they are settled in the wider community.” He dismissed state opposition calls to use the Point Nepean ­quarantine station which housed 300 refugees escaping the Kosovo conflict in 1999, saying it was no longer suitable for temporary housing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Weatherill offered temporary housing at the former Inverbrackie immigration detention centre in the Adelaide Hills.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Inverbrackie was originally built as a cluster of 80 houses for defence families but in 2010 the federal government announced it would be upgraded to use as low-security immigration detention housing. The centre was closed in December and it is expected to be advertised for public sale within weeks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Federal Liberal MP Jamie Briggs, whose Mayo electorate incorporates Inverbrackie, said a significant amount of work would be needed to make the centre habitable and that the intention of resettlement was not to “put people in camps”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The suggestion that Inverbrackie can just sort of be opened up overnight and used … doesn’t understand that there would be a significant amount of work required to get the houses back up to the standard that you would be happy with people to live in,” Mr Briggs said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Secondly we don’t need to put people in camps when we’re taking them through the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> ­process.“We detain people when they arrive illegally by <b>boat</b> … that’s why they go into these sorts of facilities and in that sense I think the proposal from the Premier’s a bit odd.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Hardline Bernardi rocking the boats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TORY SHEPHERD POLITICAL EDITOR   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>302 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SENATOR Cory Bernardi concedes he may have made the same choice as Abdullah Kurdi, who took a fateful <b>boat</b> ride from Turkey last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The South Australian Liberal came under attack yesterday for claiming Mr Kurdi was not a real <b>refugee</b> but chose to take the <b>boat</b> ride that killed his two sons and his wife.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Photos of Mr Kurdi’s two boys, Aylan and Galip, washed up on the Turkish shore, provoked rallies and public outpourings of grief and has influenced the Government’s response to the Syrian crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SA Senator Bernardi told The Advertiser that circumstances could force hard choices, but that his job was to contribute to fact-based policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Advertiser asked him if he would have left the Turkish camp if it was him. “I may have,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“People are in all sorts of circumstances and they do all sorts of dire things but we’re talking about a humanitarian <b>refugee</b> intake. These people were not in any danger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Surely our responsibility is to those in imminent danger, not those seeking a better life.” Labor and Liberal MPs damned Senator Bernardi’s comments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He had said “opportunistic” people would pretend to be Syrian to move to other countries and said Mr Kurdi only put his family on the <b>boat</b> to get dental treatment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Kurdi’s teeth were reportedly knocked out by IS.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s Anthony Albanese labelled Senator Bernardi “an embarrassment” while Liberal backbencher Ewen Jones asked: “Do you really expect anything else from the likes of Bernardi?”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senator Bernardi’s colleague, Senate Leader Eric Abetz, said Australia should focus on Christians in Syria who need rescuing because they were the “most persecuted religion in the world”.PAGE 13: HUMANITY MUST DRIVE RESPONSE TO SYRIANS</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Fellow LNP members fail to back Jones’ call to increase intake to 50,000</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>STEVEN SCOTT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>333 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FEDERAL Government backbencher Ewen Jones says Australia can take up to 50,000 more refugees from Syria and believes his Townsville constituents agree with him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Jones’ neighbouring LNP MP George Christensen warned against increasing the <b>refugee</b> intake, saying it could cost jobs and create tension.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Jones (pictured) shocked some of his colleagues when he called for a one-off increase to <b>refugee</b> numbers of between 30,000 and 50,000, which was much higher than Labor’s call for a 10,000 boost or the Greens’ call for 20,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But his call came as other influential Liberal party figures, including NSW Premier Mike Baird, urged the Abbott Government to take significantly more refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Jones said most of his Townsville constituents were opposed to <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b> but would welcome an influx of Syrian refugees into their community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There is a big difference between having strong borders and what we are seeing unfolding,” Mr Jones said. “When it comes to times of crisis, cyclones or fires, we are a very welcoming community.” No other government backbenchers were prepared to back Mr Jones’ call, but many agreed with the sentiment and wanted a modest increase.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“As a result of the Government’s success in stopping illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals to Australia, we are now in a position to take more refugees from offshore <b>refugee</b> camps,” Brisbane MP Teresa Gambaro said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Christensen hit back at Mr Jones and said Australia should increase the number of Syrian refugees within the existing <b>refugee</b> intake. “People who are talking about bringing tens of thousands of them into the country, that’s just a crazy argument,” he said. “Those people will go straight into the jobs market or going on the dole.”North Queensland LNP Senator Ian Macdonald warned community sentiment could shift and urged the Government not to favour Syrians over other desperate people.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>165 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">• Annual targets set by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, who also decides on breakdown of source countries, in consultation with experts • <b>Asylum</b> seekers can apply offshore through the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>, such as through being registered in a <b>refugee</b> camp • People can apply from offshore through the Special Humanitarian Program if they: - have an Australian sponsor - can show a link to Australia - can prove fear of persecution at home • To apply onshore, <b>asylum</b> seekers must already be in Australia or arrive by plane with another visa (eg student or tourist visa) • Arrivals by <b>boat</b> are sent for processing on Nauru or PNG’s Manus Island and will not be resettled in Australia if deemed to be refugees</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2014-15 BY THE NUMBERS: 13,756 visas granted through the <b>Refugee</b> and Special Humanitarian Program 11,009 to offshore applicants 2747 to onshore applicants TOP 5 COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN FOR OFFSHORE <b>REFUGEE</b> APPLICATIONS: Iraq 2335 Syria 2232 Myanmar 2029 Afghanistan 1813Democratic Republic of the Congo 384</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Nicole Hasham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>549 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees will get a clock, a radio, pots and counselling</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Nicole Hasham</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Syrian <b>refugee</b> Michael Aboujundi arrived 15 years ago and was "cofused and lost". Photo: PENNY STEPHENS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many will arrive grief-stricken and dazed, with nothing but the clothes they stand in. They will be given a home and things to put in it - a couch and heater, a small radio and a wall clock. Weeks later, the needs of Syrian refugees accepted by Australia will go beyond the material: a GP and a Medicare card, English classes and an education, or perhaps training and a job. Many will need trauma counselling. As the Abbott government faces pressure to take thousands more Syrian refugees, debate has turned to the cost of their resettlement. On Channel Seven's Sunrise program on Tuesday, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson said "our hearts go out to these</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">people. But let's step back and ask, where is the money coming from?" The Department of Immigration and Border Protection could not put a price on the current annual <b>refugee</b> intake of 13,750. Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles would not cost his party's plan for a one-off intake of 10,000 Syrians, saying it "depends on how it is done". About $149.5 million was allocated to settlement services in the last federal budget, rising to a projected $184 million by 2018. Other portfolios will also face <b>refugee</b> costs. State governments will contribute through health, schooling and other services. AMES Australia chief executive Cath Scarth, whose organisation helps resettle refugees, said the costs were not significant "considering the humanitarian</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">benefit. "For some, merely getting here and being in safety will be enough for their natural resilience to [return] and they will get on and build very successful lives." Others will need long-term counselling. Refugees are given starter packs containing household goods such as appliances and cooking utensils, food and supermarket vouchers. They may also get <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span> benefits until they find work. Syrian <b>refugee</b> Michael Aboujundi arrived in Australia by <b>boat</b> 15 years ago after fleeing political persecution. He lives in the Melbourne suburb of Northcote. He said Syrian refugees in Australia will initially feel relief that "it's safe, there's no more panic or worry about what might happen in the next minute or hour ï¿½ with bombing anywhere." Mr Aboujundi, 43, said he initially struggled with English and</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">often felt "confused and lost". "I remember walking down the street and a guy asked if I had a spare cigarette. I didn't understand what he was talking about ... [until] he used body language." Now living in public housing and volunteering at a local tenancy service, he worries about the fate of his family. His sisters fled to <b>refugee</b> camps in different parts of the Middle East and his mother and brothers remain in Syria. Another brother is missing and one was murdered in 2000. He urged the government to "be kind enough to act like other decent countries" and accept more refugees. "From outside Syria the sky is on fire from the bombing ï¿½ and the Syrian people are stuck in there. It's heartbreaking to watch the news. It's just terrible."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM to expand bombing, take more refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Phillip Coorey Chief political correspondent   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian airstrikes inside Syria are expected within weeks and there will be a big increase in the intake of refugees from the conflict, following deliberations last night by cabinet's national security committee.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Tony Abbott is expected to announce on Wednesday the extension of airstrikes by the Royal Australian Air Force from Iraq to Syria, and one-off plans to accept thousands more refugees from Syria.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The extra refugees would be mainly from such religious minorities as Christians and Yazidis on the basis they are being persecuted the most and have the least chance of ever returning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to sources, the NSC discussed accepting as a one-off and on a permanent basis at least an extra 10,000 refugees as already being called for by Labor. They would be in addition to the overall annual humanitarian intake of 13,750 people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott told Parliament that military and humanitarian responses were required.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The people of Syria are currently caught between the hammer of the death cult and its mass executions and the anvil of the Assad regime and its chemical weapons," he said. "We need to ensure people can be safe in country as well as trying to ensure people can be safe out of country and that people who are in camps, particularly persecuted minorities, women and children who are in camps, do have the prospect of a better life."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has had between six and eight fighter planes, a refueller and a surveillance plane operating above Iraq for almost a year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The decision to ramp up the <b>refugee</b> intake has the full support of the Labor opposition and the state governments, but has caused divisions within the federal Coalition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The issue dominated Tuesday morning's party room meeting of Coalition MPs. Views ranged from there should no expansion to the annual 13,750 quota to letting in tens of thousands more. Tensions were raised ahead of the meeting when conservative Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi found himself the subject of scorn for saying Aylan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian toddler whose photograph went around the world, was not a legitimate <b>refugee</b> because he and his family had already fled to Turkey and were at no risk there.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Government Whip and Tasmanian Liberal MP Andrew Nikolic accused colleagues calling for Australia to expand it <b>refugee</b> intake were trying to "out-compassion" each other.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Western Australian Luke Simpkins likened Australia's role to putting a bucket under a leaking roof and said it was more important the roof was fixed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Queensland senator Ian Macdonald likened the situation to climate change and said Australia should only do its proportionate share.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Others, such as Tasmania's Brett Whitley, argued a compassionate line. He said Australia should do more, contending that the debate has changed "and if we don't change with it we'll be left looking reactionary", a source said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Whitley was quoted as saying Australia "needed to move with the heartbeat of our communities" and even those who backed the Coalition in "stopping the boats" were "now calling for us to do more in relation to Syrian refugees".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said European nations trumpeting their additional <b>refugee</b> intake were not necessarily taking permanent refugees. The United Kingdom is handing out five-year visas and Germany is processing rather than resettling 800,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Coalition frontbenchers such as Senator Eric Abetz have argued for Christian minorities to be prioritised, NSW Liberal Premier Mike Baird signalled he thought there should not be discrimination and "everyone has the same value".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One unnamed Liberal MP said outside the meeting that Australia did not need any more Muslim men.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition has been able to accept more Syrian refugees within the existing 13,750 quota in recent years because it has stopped the boats and freed up more places.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has taken more than 3200 people from Syria in the last two financial years compared with 107 during Labor's final two years in power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a speech to Parliament on Monday night, Senator Bernardi attacked the Greens and others for citing the image of the dead Syrian boy as reason Australia and the world had to act. "I find it a bit sanctimonious for [Greens leader Richard] Di Natale to bring in these emotive arguments, and particularly to characterise this as some sort of humanitarian mission by using the terrible image of that young boy who was picked up from the beach after having drowned at sea," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The facts remain that that terrible image was not brought about by recent events in Syria or Iraq. That boy and his family had lived in Turkey for three years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The money for that boy's father to pay the people smugglers was sent from Canada. The father sent them on that <b>boat</b> so the father could get dental treatment. They were in no fear, they were in no persecution and they were in no danger in Turkey."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Queensland Liberal MP Ewen Jones, who has called for Australia to take as many as 50,000 refugess from the crisis, was openly scornful of his colleague. "Do you really expect anything other than that from someone like Cory?" he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cabinet is expected to meet this morning to ratify the decisions of the NSC, which was briefed via videolink on Tuesday night by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, who was dispatched to Geneva on the weekend to see the <span class="companylink">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WITH PRIMROSE RIORDAN</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM opens door to lift <b>refugee</b> intake</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Mark Kenny, Political Correspondent </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1086 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Migrant crisis - Australia meets responsibilities</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Tony Abbott has indicated Australia is now likely to take in more refugees from Syria than the current humanitarian cap would allow while also stepping up its military commitment via bombing raids on Islamic State targets and supply lines within that war-torn country.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Among the options is a one-off increase and/or a quicker transition from the current 13,750 annual humanitarian places to the higher 18,750 cap set for the end of the decade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Neither the military nor the humanitarian decision has been finalised, with the National Security Committee of cabinet set to sign off on Tuesday on the US-requested mission expansion, and the scale of the <b>refugee</b> response dependent on feedback from the <span class="companylink">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</span> .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott said that when dealing with the terror threat of Islamic State , Australia would act with "decency and force".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The prospect of the Abbott government lifting its aggregate <b>refugee</b> intake had been ruled out in previous days, but the colossal extent of the Syrian crisis, coupled with growing pressure from within the Liberal Party, has seen Mr Abbott shift to a more activist stance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton was due to meet with <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> officials in Geneva overnight and is expected to report back on Tuesday, clearing the way for the announcement of a potentially dramatic one-off hike in Australia's 13,750 annual intake under its humanitarian program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has called for that hike to be a 10,000-person increase, and wants a $100 million injection of aid to go with it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the two-year anniversary of his election as Prime Minister, Mr Abbott struck an uncommonly bipartisan tone in response, telling the House of Representatives it had a "good spirit and a good heart" and declaring that Australia would not hesitate to meet its international responsibilities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This would include additional funds for the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> to undertake its growing workload.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I agree with the Leader of the Opposition that there is an unprecedented crisis. It is, as he said earlier this afternoon, probably the most serious humanitarian crisis that we have seen, the greatest mass movement of people that we have seen since the end of the Second World War and the partition of India.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I can inform the House that it is the government's firm intention to take a significant number of people from Syria this year. We will give people refuge; that is the firm intention of this government."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those comments, which have been widely interpreted as signalling an increase above the current cap, came within minutes of Opposition Leader Bill Shorten calling for the extra 10,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Labor believes it isn't good enough for the government or Mr Abbott to simply say that they will take more refugees, but from within the existing level of refugees scheduled to be taken by this country. We are proposing a significant increase because this is a significant crisis," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Government MPs said they were increasingly confident that Cabinet would be bold in addressing the situation, although it was not clear on Monday if the extra places would be permanent residencies or some form of temporary protection or safe-haven visa class.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were also concerns that the government may look to favour some religious groups, such as Christians, above others such as Muslims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Several influential Liberals have expressed support for a greater intake in recent days ranging from NSW Premier Mike Baird and Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy to a raft of ministers and backbenchers at the federal level.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of those, Sydney MP Craig Laundy has been urging his party to do more, arguing, his multicultural western Sydney electorate of Reid would back the plan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Public support also appears to be high amid scenes of suffering and deaths at sea among the hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrians attempting to reach safety.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE SYRIAN CRISIS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How Europe is facing the deluge</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MIGRANT INTAKE THIS YEAR</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Germany 800,000</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finland 30,000</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">UK 330,000 last year, with ‘‘thousands more’’ this year</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Europe-wide</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Number of <b>asylum</b> applications in last year 662,000</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> applications still pending 567,000 (up to June 2015)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HOW THE COUNTRIES HAVE RESPONDED</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Germany</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Germany, with few ultra-nationalist anti-immigration exceptions, has been open to taking refugees. On Monday it announced a €6 billion ($9.6 billion) aid package.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finland</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finland has doubled its estimate for the number of <b>asylum</b> seekers in the country this year to up to 30,000, compared with just 3600 last year. Finish Prime Minister Juha Sipila offered his spare house to host a <b>refugee</b> family from 2016.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Austria</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Austria was allowing migrants leaving Hungary to pass through its territory on the way to Germany, even though <span class="companylink">EU</span> rules dictate that refugees must seek <b>asylum</b> in the country of their first arrival. However, on Sunday night, Chancellor Werner Faymann said the decision to suspend border checks was to be revised.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hungary</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Viktor Orban
</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">appears to be opposed to allowing Muslim migrants into his country claiming the crisis threatens Europe’s prosperity, identity and ‘‘Christian values’’. Hungary did provide buses to take thousands of marchers determined to reach Germany on foot on the weekend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">France</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">France has had its fair share of Islamist terrorism in recent year, but it hasn’t stopped its government allowing refugees from Africa and the Middle East to set up camps within its borders. France agreed to set up a command and control centre with Britain to process refugees in Calais and stop people from risking their lives by stowing away on trains and trucks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">UK</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The UK accepted some 330,000 migrants last year, of which 25,000 were refugees. Prime Minister David Cameron has announced Britain will increase its Syrian <b>refugee</b> intake to ‘‘thousands more’’, but from camps near the Syrian border, not from the <b>boat</b> and train loads arriving unannounced.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Vatican</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Pope Francis has called on every European parish and religious community to take in one migrant family each in a gesture of solidarity he said would start in the tiny Vatican state.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Italy and Greece</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Italy and Greece have bore the brunt of the migrant wave fleeing Libya and Syria by <b>boat</b>. Their ports and systems are overburdened and both countries have asked for <span class="companylink">EU</span> help to cope. At one point, 3000 people a day were arriving by <b>boat</b> on their shores.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>THEO THEOPHANOUS  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>917 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHY should Australia accept more refugees of war? Let me recount a very personal story and then you decide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is World War II and the German army has occupied Greece, including the islands, after a series of fierce battles in which many Greeks lost their lives.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My mother, Maria, with 20 others, has been hiding in a cave on a shore on the island of Chios. They are waiting for a <b>boat</b> that will take them to Turkey. It is the middle of the night when the <b>boat</b> arrives. It has to be at night. The German army patrols the shoreline on the little island and anyone caught trying to escape is executed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b> is old and designed to take only six. But they all scramble on. Anything is better than the brutal treatment handed out by the Nazis. All the food stocks on the island have been confiscated. The young men are forced to work to exhaustion to support the German army. The older residents and children forage the barren countryside for wild greens to survive. In the village Maria had watched as her father refused to eat his own meagre portions in order to give her something to keep her alive. He slowly died of hunger, one of 300,000 Greeks who perished during the famine caused by the German occupation. Barely alive, she knows she must escape the brutality and the hunger no matter how high the risk of a <b>boat</b> journey to Turkey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So more than 70 years ago, my mother pulled herself into a rickety <b>boat</b> and in circumstances of indescribable terror set off with the others hoping to get through the German lines to Turkey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I see today’s refugees now going in the opposite direction, from Turkey to the Greek islands, I am filled with despair at the recurring inhumanity of what is happening today. The <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> estimates that more than three million Syrians have fled in a desperate attempt to escape war. Australia, meanwhile, has reduced its <b>refugee</b> intake from 20,000 to 13,750 and now ranks 49th in the world in terms of intake. The Prime Minister’s latest move, to accept more from Syria without increasing the overall quota, is simply robbing Peter to pay Paul.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But back to Maria. When she got into that rickety old <b>boat</b>, she was 19 and she held in her arms a girl of five who had no family and who knew only fear and hunger. That is the reality of war.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Slowly the <b>boat</b> edged towards Turkey, half drifting and with the men taking turns to use two broken old paddles. Every wave washed a little more water into the <b>boat</b> and increased the terror.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maria could not swim and neither could the girl with her. If the <b>boat</b> sank, they would both surely drown and perhaps be washed up on some unknown shore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The images of Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless body being washed up on a beach has shocked and moved the world, and for many <b>boat</b> refugees like my mother it is a reminder of how little has changed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By the time Maria could see the shores of Turkey, there were eight men desperately hanging on from the side of the <b>boat</b>. Six began swimming to the shore. Four were of Jewish background who had been targeted by the Gestapo for transportation to the concentration camps. Maria didn’t see those men again, and not knowing if they survived haunted her all her life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b> drifted until, with a crash, it lodged itself between two rocks close enough to the coast so the refugees could get to shore. They scrambled up the coastline and spent the night wondering what the Turkish army would do to them. They were wet, cold and hungry. My mother told me it was the longest night of her life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Somehow she had managed to keep a small orange under her clothing and with the girl she went behind a rock to eat it. Everyone was hungry and it was such a small orange. But Maria still felt guilty that she had not shared it with the other survivors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maria and the other refugees were picked up by the Turkish army and transported to Cesme, a city on the coast. Turkey had maintained a semi-neutral position during the war, originally favouring the Axis powers and gradually moving to support the Allies at the end of the war. During that period of relative neutrality, Turkey allowed Greek refugees to be moved from camps in Turkey to Cyprus. My mother arrived as a <b>refugee</b> in Cyprus, where she met my father.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Poverty then drove them to leave Cyprus with their young family to immigrate to Australia for a better life and my own destiny was also set.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I understand why Prime Minister Tony Abbott wants to maintain the “stop the boats” policy, but why extend that to refusing to expand our <b>refugee</b> intake when we are contributing to the world <b>refugee</b> crisis through our military actions?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott must make us proud to be Australians. He must lead us in opening our hearts to more refugees fleeing the brutality of war. That is what Australia is truly founded upon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Were he to adopt such a policy, my mother, if she was alive today, might even be tempted to vote for him.THEO THEOPHANOUS IS A FORMER LABOR STATE GOVERNMENT MINISTER</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>EUROPE HAS TO SECURE ITS BORDERS NOW</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JIM MOLAN   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>958 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An open-door policy won’t work because the number of refugees will keep growing</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are many ways of showing compassion towards migrants entering Europe from the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Five members of Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas demanded openly that the Ethics Centre, a sponsor of FODI, remove me from their board given my connection with Australia’s border control policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One member of the twitterati pointed out that if the dead child had arrived in Australia by <b>boat</b>, we would have sent him to Manus Island, forgetting that at least he would be alive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In some areas, Europe’s joyful reaction to uncontrolled mig­ra­tion was reminiscent of celebrations surrounding the dis­mantling of John Howard’s ­success­ful border controls in 2007, resulting in at least 1000 deaths at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It took milliseconds for the argument to be politicised in Australia, helped by a grossly inaccurate <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> editorial.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government responded by pointing out that Australia was among the top three countries by any measure in our reaction to refugees, and our migration policy was second to none.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Ethics Centre is on the public record as observing that not all migrants are refugees, that some seek economic opportunity; no migrant has a right to seek prosperity illegally in another country; refugees have a right only to be made safe; and that turning boats back is justifiable if done to save lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many called on the government to do more. The Greens are never satisfied in their demands, but who could not be moved by such a human tragedy? I have found that many who call for more action are surprised when they learn what Australia does.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">European policy is as confused as Australia’s policy was for six years under the previous government. The only real difference is those who mismanaged Australian border policy had an immediate and local example of effective policy from the Howard government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many European commentators and The <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> still believe simplistically that the push factors of war and poverty are more important than the pull factors of rich and peaceful nations with open borders. Australia was taught the lesson of pull factors by Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some in Europe have a confused view of the <b>Refugee</b> Convention and what its obligations are, and the morality of an open border policy. That is their right, but it is unlikely to last.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many Europeans have the mistaken belief that the problem is so big that they cannot do anything about it. Initially, some in Europe tried to learn from Australia’s experience and I became involved through Italian, British and German media. Those I debated were convinced, in innocent arrogance, that Europe’s problem was far worse than those faced by Australia, and that was six months ago. That is wrong in per capita terms or in the breadth of the migration flows. They are comparable challenges and of course Europe has far more resources to use when it decides to control its borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The difference is that we have been successful while meeting our obligations under the <b>Refugee</b> Convention and, with very few regrettable exceptions, observing human rights. Just because our efforts at resolving the offshore processing legacy left to us by Labor has been less than perfect does not compromise the overall policy. Where we have been perfect is in stopping deaths at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The creation of the EU seems to have removed from member nations the ability to take unilateral action on certain issues but has not given Brussels the ability to take effective action.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This applies to the management of the consequence of border failure and in controlling borders when that point is reached, as it will be reached.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The result is that the EU’s bizarre initial response was to vigorously but ineffectively attack the symptoms. The pull factor signalled that Europe’s borders were open, and anyone from any camp or country throughout the Middle East or Africa had a fair chance of getting in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Europe decides on an open border policy, that is its business, but the 800,000 that some estimate Germany alone will take this year is likely to increase every year going into the future — 1.3 million next year? Why would it stop or even stay at present levels?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Apart from the deaths at sea, there are cultural, security and funding implications the EU leadership should not ignore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite The <span class="companylink">New York Times</span>’ view, Australia’s experience is worthy of open-minded examination by Europeans because it holds the solution to their problem, which is controlling borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is a tragedy and policies must be compassionate, but it is unlikely to be lessened by treating the symptoms and not a major cause — that is, pull factors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By all means, strive to resolve the push factors of war and poverty, but don’t expect any better results than humanity has achieved during the past several thousand years, which is mitigation at best. What can be controlled is the pull factors of open borders. What will define this crisis is the next few steps. By comparison, what has happened so far is the easy part.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No European should believe they cannot secure their borders or that it is lacking in compassion to do so. They can and they will when the problem reaches a certain internal European level. Once they do, they can then decide the level of their humanitarian intake, and not subcontract this to people-smugglers.Jim Molan is a retired army officer, a co-author of Australia’s border control policies and the PM’s envoy for Operation Sovereign Borders.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>849 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Compassion not politics AUSTRALIA has shown compassion in pledging to increase the number of Syrian migrants who will be given sanctuary from the <b>refugee</b> crisis engulfing Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But this generosity is being politicised by those who seek to make capital out of the misery of others.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is not the time to launch unwarranted attacks on the Abbott Government as it seeks to provide desperate people with safe haven.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister made good his promise to stop the boats. In doing so the Government has saved innumerable lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But stopping the boats cannot be where this ends. New South Wales Premier Mike Baird is right when he says, in an emotional <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> post, it is surely where humanitarianism begins.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a little over 10 years, more than 1000 people died at sea while trying to reach Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now, people are dying in their thousands as they flee war-torn countries to seek refuge in Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 300,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean to reach Europe this year, with more than 2500 deaths by drowning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians, like people around the world, were shocked and saddened by the image of lifeless toddler Aylan Kurdi lying on a beach in Turkey. He was one of 12 people to drown when the <b>boat</b> he was in capsized.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HIS fate is a global problem and one in which Australia stands ready to help. Having stopped the boats bringing <b>asylum</b> seekers to our shores, the next step is to increase the overall number of migrants we take in as part of a global response.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition has been quick to act; however, the Labor Party and the Greens have been just as quick to politicise what is a humanitarian response by Prime Minister Tony Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As well as announcing an increase in the number of Syrians who will be taken in, Mr Abbott has sent Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to Geneva to ask the United Nations how the Government can assist in the crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is not the action of a country ignoring its humanitarian responsibilities. Australia has long been a welcoming nation to migrants and those fleeing persecution in their own lands. This has taken place over decades as wars and terrorism have claimed millions of lives and driven millions to seek sanctuary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has never lagged behind other nations in offering its hand to the desperate and those families facing starvation and death.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The conflict in Syria and Iraq is causing an increasing flood of these victims. The United Nations Human Rights Commission estimates that more than four million people have left Syria since 2011, with 7.6 million displaced within the country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia will increase its migrant intake from 13,750 to nearly 18,750 by 2019, as well as taking 4400 people from Syria and Iraq last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These are not insignificant numbers on a per capita basis and, while Australia is preparing to do more, using a global responsibility to gain political points is cynical and opportunistic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not all of the millions of people joining this exodus through the Middle East and North Africa are fleeing war or persecution. Some are economic migrants seeking a better life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PERMANENT resettlement is not necessarily a long-term solution. The best solution is to bring peace to their homelands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian aircraft and special forces advisers have been successful in holding back <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> terrorists from taking over more territory in Iraq and RAAF aircraft can now be expected to join the United States in attacking the death cult in Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wracked by civil war, with the Assad regime contributing to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of its own citizens, Syria has become a safe haven for terrorists returning from Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The war-torn country is also a staging post for foreign fighters, including radicalised Australians, some of them teenagers, who have joined in Islamic extremism. It is <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> and other terrorist groups who have caused the greatest outpouring of <b>asylum</b> seekers across Europe since World War II, not the intervention of foreign forces trying to drive them out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An end to a tide of human suffering as families flee the horrors of war will only be achieved by the defeat of groups like <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Austria and Germany have agreed to take thousands of refugees who were being held back in Hungary, with some 10,000 people crossing the Austrian border within the past few days.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AUSTRALIA, too, has shown itself ready to take in the friendless and the oppressed, despite what political opportunists and activists might say.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Hawke Labor government provided refuge for 40,000 Chinese people following the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Howard Coalition government issued temporary visas to assist 4000 refugees from the Kosovo war in 1999. Almost 4000 refugees were given visas and then money to help them resettle back home.Instead of a bipartisan approach to an even greater crisis, Labor is trying to score political points from this misery plucking numbers out of thin air. This is shameful politics. Australia is opening its heart, as always.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>‘I saw many, many people killed. Many children’</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Konrad Marshall With Miki Perkins   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>540 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Khadoun al-Othman fled Syria exactly one year ago, with his wife and four young children, he did not come by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No, in escaping the horrors of his homeland, he did not flee by flimsy raft over the choppy Mediterranean Sea.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was not left the unenviable choice of poor Abdullah Kurdi, who buried his little sons Aylan, 3, Ghalib, 4, and his wife Rehan, after they drowned off the coast of Turkey last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For this, Mr Othman is thankful. But he sits in his home in Tarneit, in Melbourne's west, in relative comfort, and plays a small video for the benefit of <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>. It is footage of his body after 15 days in a Syrian prison, taken to document the damage done.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His legs are almost entirely purple. They are bloody, too, and singed with cigarette burns, and he winces as he watches the footage pan over his discoloured skin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I was bound to a wall by my hands and feet, and blindfolded," he says through a translator.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Then I was electric shocked, until I pay US$28,000 ($41,000) to be released."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced Australia will take a "significant" number of refugees from Syria, but not increasing Australia's overall <b>refugee</b> intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Describing it as a "pathetic" response, <b>Asylum</b> Seeker Resource Centre head Kon Karapanagiotidis says the government should accept 20,000 Syrian refugees, above the annual <b>refugee</b> intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's a miserly response to what is a global crisis. It means taking away places from people fleeing war, persecution and violence in other countries," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> advocates have asked Mr Abbott to clarify what category of visas will be issued to Syrian refugees, amid concerns they could be similar to the "Safe Haven" visas issued to Kosovar refugees in 1999 that only allowed <b>asylum</b> seekers to stay until it was deemed it "safe" for them to return home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Othman was targeted, as many were and still are in Syria, because he had money - a life savings earned running a construction company of 400 employees. Once released, he fled with his family to Lebanon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He visited the United Nations there, was interviewed several times, and eventually granted permanent residency in Australia. He flew from Beirut to Melbourne, leaving behind his life inside a bloody civil war.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the war - fought between Kurdish militias and <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> jihadists - death and displacement (and displacement that leads to death) have become the norm in Syria. Mr Othman was lucky, he says, to avoid the same fate as the Kurdi family.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For this, he wants to thank the Australian government, for bringing him here. But he wishes the same generosity could be afforded those now stuck in Turkey, Hungary and Austria - and those still stranded in Syria, including his mother and brother.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has seen the photos of little Aylan. He has heard the phrase "Humanity Washed Ashore".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He prays, but fears others will meet this end.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I saw many, many people killed. Many children," he says. "As a human being you are always affected, but it becomes like a normal life."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Europe must remove sugar from the table</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Piers Akerman </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>705 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is time to be firm, says Piers Akerman</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE body of a small boy lying dead on a Turkish beach has become the powerful new image of European failure — failure to take a united stand against Islamist barbarism, failure to abandon a disastrous policy of multiculturalism, and failure to reverse its liberal immigration policies.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The photo was used by The Independent newspaper in the UK on its front page with the editorial justification that “it is all too easy to forget the reality of the desperate situation facing many refugees”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is one of the Left’s empty catchcries and does nothing to address the causes of the tragedy. The reality is there will be more corpses washed up on beaches around the Mediterranean or found rotting in abandoned trucks beside motorways unless Europe takes tough action to halt the <b>refugee</b> flow at the source. That can only occur when the Muslim community examines the doctrinal root causes of Islamist terror and starts defending its own from barbarous coreligionists and when European nations withdraw the factors making them attractive destinations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Europe has to remove the sugar from the table.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That was the gist of the lesson former Indonesian president Bambang Yudhoyono tried to give former prime minister Kevin Rudd , but it went unheeded.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under Rudd and then prime minister Gillard, the disastrous Labor/Green immigration policy saw about 50,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers reach Australia by <b>boat</b> at a cost to taxpayers of more than $10 billion and more than 1100 lives lost at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the Abbott Government and Immigration Minister Scott Morrison tackled the problem and removed the sugar, the immediate problem of people smuggling, drownings and uncontrolled immigration budget blowouts disappeared.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The sugar the Europeans have carelessly left on their table has lured more than 2600 people to their deaths as they’ve tried to cross the Mediterranean into Europe this year. More than 350,000 have landed seeking either sanctuary or a better life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The solutions to this unfolding catastrophe are an anathema to the Left. European governments are realising that humanitarian solutions begin in the migrants’ countries of origin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Taking taxpayer-funded Mediterranean cruises aboard rescue vessels, as Greens senator Sarah Hanson Young did this year, encourages people smuggling and economic migrants, disrupts <b>refugee</b> resettlement programs and leads to more deaths at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Across the length and breadth of Europe, there is now a growing realisation the soft-Left embrace of multiculturalism has been an abject disaster. In Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, the UK, Spain, Italy and beyond, there has been significant failure of Islamic migrants to assimilate into the resident population.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Western liberal democracies that welcomed refugees now find they are harbouring cancerous colonies of malcontents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Germany finds itself under duress with more than 700,000 migrants expected to seek refuge in its cities this year, Hungarian police have blocked refugees boarding trains to Germany at Budapest’s central station, and construction is continuing on a 170km razor-wire fence to seal its border with Serbia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">European television is dominated by angry scenes from refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and North Africa fighting to get to Germany or the UK where the sugar remains on the table.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tough new laws are being implemented to reduce benefits in countries that once rolled out the red carpet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Among the latest to take a tougher approach is the Netherlands, which has just announced it will stop providing food and shelter to failed <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They should have known better. Around the Middle East countries there are ghettos where nationals from other nations have settled and refused to assimilate, the generations of Palestinians who maintain they are still refugees should have been an object lesson for the West.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is impossible not to be sympathetic to those risking all for a safe life, but the international community should be ensuring that the safety refugees seek should be available in their home country. As hard as it may be for a parent to be firm with a child, an adult knows when firmness is necessary.Piers Akerman is a News Corp columnist who has worked as a journalist in Britain and the US.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>We will welcome more Syrians: PM</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Stephanie Peatling Gareth Hutchens   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>932 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE CRISIS IN EUROPE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis, but will not increase the total number of <b>asylum</b> seekers it accepts, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced on Sunday.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His comments came as Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted migrants from the east, and Hungary warned the number could grow to millions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott declined to give a specific figure but said it would be "significant", and indicated it would be more than the 4400 people from Syria and northern Iraq Australia took last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton will fly to Geneva on Sunday night to hold urgent discussions with the <span class="companylink">United Nations <b>refugee</b> agency</span>, the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Like every other Australian I was moved by the horrific imagery of that little boy [Aylan Kurdi] washed up on a beach in Turkey," Mr Abbott said at a press conference in Canberra.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We have always been a good global citizen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Always have been, always will be ... this is doing that right thing by Australia, and it's doing the right thing by the world."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The announcement comes as international attention is focused on the Syrian <b>refugee</b> crisis, tragically highlighted by the photograph of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned last week as his family tried to cross the Mediterranean Sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After days of confrontation and chaos, Hungary deployed more than 100 buses overnight to take thousands of the migrants, who had streamed there from south-east Europe, to the Austrian border. Austria said it had agreed with Germany to allow the migrants access, waiving <b>asylum</b> rules.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hungary, the main entry point into Europe's borderless Schengen zone for migrants, has taken a hard line, vowing to seal its southern frontier with a new, high fence by September 15.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Hungary would deploy police and troops along its border with Serbia after September 15 if Parliament approved a government proposal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's not 150,000, that some [in the EU] want to divide according to quotas, it's not 500,000, a figure that I heard in Brussels; it's millions, then tens of millions ..." he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Australia, pressure has been growing on the federal government to act, with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews yesterday called for a significant increase in the overall <b>refugee</b> intake, claiming Mr Abbott's decision to keep the overall intake the same was "not humanitarianism".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Andrews said Victoria was ready to "stump up", suggesting the state would be prepared to pay more to meet the added cost.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earlier, NSW Premier Mike Baird and Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman offered their help.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Liberal backbenchers Craig Laundy and Russell Broadbent also called on the government to do more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I am begging for a response that goes beyond what we currently have in place," said Western Sydney MP Mr Laundy, who applauded Mr Abbott for sending the Immigration Minister to Geneva.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition Leader Bill Shorten also joined calls for an increase in the number of Syrian refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Labor believes that we can take more refugees in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We should also be providing greater resources to the United Nations Commission for Refugees," Mr Shorten said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor supports an increase in the overall number of refugees taken by Australia to 27,000 people a year by 2025, but has not put a specific figure on the number of people who should come from Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens want Australia to immediately accept an additional 20,000 Syrian refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens immigration spokeswoman Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, said the announcement amounted to "virtually nothing" because the government had given "no real commitment" to increase Australia's overall <b>refugee</b> intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We need to be taking more refugees, we need to be putting more funding towards the United Nations, and we need to stop with the callous talk of turning back boats," Ms Hanson-Young said in Canberra.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It is crucial that we give an emergency intake above and beyond the current numbers of 20,000, to help resettle those ... children and families fleeing the war zone in Syria. "[That would be] a small, modest but meaningful number for Australia and anything less, anything within the current intake, simply isn't good enough. This is a humanitarian crisis."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott said "no other country on earth takes more refugees on a per capita basis" than Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A press release from Mr Abbott's office said Australia was "the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>'s leading nation for the permanent resettlement of refugees".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government is increasing the humanitarian program from 13,750 places a year to 18,750 places a year by 2018-19.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott said priority would be given to families and women and children, especially those from persecuted minorities who have taken refuge in camps neighbouring Syria and Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia took 4400 people from Syria and northern Iraq last financial year, which represents about 30 per cent of the 13,750 places in the humanitarian program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott said the Coalition's success in stopping <b>boat</b> arrivals meant the government, not people smugglers, was now in charge of which <b>asylum</b> seekers came to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton will also discuss with the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> increasing government funding to help the agency with the cost of the millions of people who have been displaced by the conflict in Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The national security committee of cabinet is expected this week to sign off on a plan that would expand the RAAF's mission beyond the Iraqi border into Syria.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Abbott an American pin-up</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nick O'Malley, US Correspondent   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>490 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Support - US conservatives like PM</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After being castigated in The <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> for Australia's "brutal" treatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers, Tony Abbott has won support from the conservative American site Breitbart News.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a story headlined "<span class="companylink">New York Times</span> warns Europe against Australia's successful migration policies", Breitbart reports that Mr Abbott has faced down international criticism for crafting a policy "that works and is coupled with an orderly migration scheme".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Yet somehow this policy success upsets the delicate sensibilities of the <span class="companylink">New York Times</span>' editorial board. They don't understand that if you don't want to witness tragic migrant drownings then you have to stop people getting on the boats in the first place," says the report.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Wednesday The <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> editorial board described Mr Abbott's polices to deter people seeking <b>asylum</b> by <b>boat</b> as "inhumane, of dubious legality and strikingly at odds with the country's tradition of welcoming people fleeing persecution and war".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott has long been a source of minor fascination among some American conservatives, not only for his tough policies on <b>boat</b> arrivals, but also for his climate change skepticism. Over recent months Breitbart has celebrated Mr Abbott for his policy to deport dual citizens found to have been involved in terrorism ("Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott doesn't just talk tough on terrorism - he acts on it") and to block any new government funding for renewable energy schemes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earlier this year a columnist for another staunchly conservative publication, Town Hall, heaped praise on Mr Abbott, writing: "The successful Australian model is one America must learn from. It shows what can happen when you develop a policy and adhere to it strictly, with no exceptions. Instead of praising Australia on gun laws, President Obama should be praising Australia's border security."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That piece was picked up by the website of the Minute Man Project, a volunteer militia whose members patrol America's southern border.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott has won praise from Rick Santorum, a hardline Catholic former senator and current Republican presidential candidate, for sticking to unpopular policies on principal. "Australia is clearly to the left of us on most of these moral cultural issues and yet Tony Abbott is a conservative Catholic who didn't change his positions one bit, but was able to go out there and connect with average voters," Mr Santorum told Fox News last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not all observers are as supportive. Earlier this month Foreign Policy magazine published a piece titled "The Green Devil", attacking Mr Abbott for everything from repealing the carbon tax to backing logging in Tasmanian wilderness and cutting funding for research and renewable energy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In February a commentator for the US think tank the <span class="companylink">Council on Foreign Relations</span> published an opinion piece arguing that Mr Abbott was the least competent leader of any rich nation.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Right when we need leadership they cower behind prejudice</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Greg Barns   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>867 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greg Barns takes a shot at national leaders who fail to care for their fellow humankind</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHAT have Prime Minister Tony Abbott, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban got in common?</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Each lacks humanity. Each lacks any sense of compassion. They are all men incapable of placing themselves in another human’s skin and getting a feel for it, to use the imagery evoked by To Kill a Mockingbird’s Atticus Finch.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Orban, an authoritarian, boasts of being “illiberal”. His Government is building a huge fence and refusing to allow desperate <b>asylum</b> seekers from Syria and elsewhere to board trains to Germany, a nation with a leader in Angela Merkel who shames the Abbotts, Camerons and Orbans of the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Come to think of it, Orban and Abbott have some things in common. Both demonise <b>asylum</b> seekers, both refuse to condemn anti-Muslim sentiment, and both think the media, particularly of the government-owned variety, should be lackeys of the government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cameron, with a narrow majority in the <span class="companylink">UK Parliament</span> after this year’s election, panders to the loony Right of his party and to the all too powerful tabloid media. This unseemly grouping is bereft of rational thought when it comes to the global movement of people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What this troika of leaders — and that last word is used very loosely in this case — does not understand is that the smart thing to do for their society and economy is to let <b>asylum</b> seekers settle in their countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the English-speaking world’s most intellectually consistent newspaper The Economist said in an editorial last week, “Let them in.” <b>Asylum</b> seekers are extraordinarily resourceful people. To risk your life on a leaky <b>boat</b>, to walk thousands of miles, and to endure the persecution and oppression of <b>refugee</b> camps you have the best of the human spirit. These are the very people who build businesses, who blend into communities easily, and who strive for their children’s future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seekers are a large part of the answer to the decline in population and the ageing of that population in countries such as Hungary, the UK, Germany and Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead of wasting scandalous amounts of money, such as $55 million of Australian taxpayers’ dollars to resettle less than a handful of <b>asylum</b> seekers in the hell hole that is Cambodia or in building walls across a border as is the case in Hungary (by the way, ask the US, walls don’t keep people out), European countries and nations such as Australia should be increasing <b>refugee</b> resettlement programs rapidly and in large numbers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And before all of you who think Abbott has done such a wonderful job “stopping the boats” pen a letter to the editor or berates this columnist online, please note the boats have not stopped and that Australia merely pushes them back in the full knowledge that many on those boats may be persecuted or die.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is most shameful about populists like Orban, Abbott, Cameron and co is their hypocrisy. These are leaders who are very happy to join Washington in its military plays around the world, which inevitably cause massive displacement and hardship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And these are the same leaders who ignore genocide and slaughter in areas of the world such as Africa, where it does not suit the rich West to assist the oppressed. No care and no responsibility is the mantra of this lot.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If being human means nothing else, surely it means this — that when your fellow human, irrespective of colour or creed, is at risk of death or persecution you assist them. You walk with them to find safety. You reach out to them and ensure they find safe passage to the chance of a better life. You put aside irrational and loathsome prejudice and fear.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is what must happen in Europe, and it must happen in Australia. The fear and prejudice must stop. This planet operates best when hearts and minds are open, not closed. It is when we have leaders who understand that there is much to be gained by opening borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Look at the US in the 19th century when it accepted millions from strife-ridden Europe. Look at the nations and individuals who took in millions of Jews in the 1930s. Or take the Fraser government’s opening Australia’s borders to Vietnamese families fleeing a war-torn nation in the 1970s. These are the high points of modern human history.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Leaders like Orban, Abbott and Cameron will be forgotten by the history books. They are not men with hearts. They are more interested in pandering to the worst in all of us than bringing out the best in us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">History will relegate these men to footnotes because when leadership and the essence of what it is to be human was needed they were found cowering behind a wall of xenophobia and prejudice.Lawyer Greg Barns was an adviser to NSW Liberal premier Nick Greiner and the Howard government. Disendorsed as the Liberal candidate for Denison in 2002, he joined the Democrats. In 2013, he was Wikileaks Party adviser.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>EU SHOULD REVISIT AUSTRALIA’S <b>ASYLUM</b>-SEEKER POLICY</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HENRY ERGAS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1020 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The inconsistencies in its approach have made the <b>refugee</b> crisis even worse</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All the grief in the world about the death by drowning of Aylan and Galip Kurdi, aged 3 and 5, as they tried to cross from Turkey to Greece, cannot absolve Europe of its responsibility for the 2600 lives lost, this year alone, to the Mediterranean’s treacherous seas.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nor can German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s calls for the ­<span class="companylink">European Union</span> to vastly increase its <b>refugee</b> intake eliminate the risks that simply accommodating the flood of <b>asylum</b>-seekers would create, including that of further fraying Europe’s social fabric. Rather, if it is to overcome the ­crisis that has engulfed it, the EU should take a fresh look at Australia’s policies, while abandoning the approach it has adopted to date.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That approach is at heart of the problem: ridden with inconsistencies, it has merely made the crisis worse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those inconsistencies, which mirror the errors Labor made, are readily explained.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the one hand, Europe’s ­political leaders profess their unshakable commitment to the UN’s <b>Refugee</b> Convention. <b>Asylum</b>-seekers, once they arrive in the EU, are therefore generally allowed to remain, all the more so given the European courts’ reluctance to permit the deportation of those whose claims are rejected. (The British courts, for example, set such high standards that deportations are only approved to four of Africa’s 54 countries.) Together with limitations on detention, that ensures the returns on getting to Europe are high, ­especially compared to the ­catastrophic situation in the greater Middle East.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the same time, however, those leaders, responding to public opinion, have made it ever harder for refugees to actually reach the EU and so claim <b>asylum</b>. Not only do barbed-wire fences close off the land crossings, but Frontex (the European border security agency) has shut down <b>asylum</b>-seekers’ access to the lower-risk means of moving by sea — such as the tourist ferries that, for one-tenth the price the people smugglers charge, could have transported little Aylan and Galip safely across the Aegean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Predictably, instead of eliminating the migrant flows, the effect has been to shift them to increasingly dangerous routes and modes of travel. And as if that was not bad enough, once deteriorating conditions in the <b>refugee</b> camps swelled the flows into a torrent, the fear that entry would become even more difficult precipitated a rush to get in before the doors slammed shut.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Faced with the chaos those forces have caused, Merkel’s goal is to restore order.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her hope is that by expanding resettlement programs, while developing better mechanisms for allocating places, the EU could curb the stampede. The obvious precedents are the Orderly Departure Program created to manage the exodus of Vietnamese <b>boat</b> people in 1979, and the lottery scheme the US deployed to stem the flotillas leaving Cuba in the “balsero” crisis of 1994.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But whether those programs worked is questionable; rather, the evidence suggests they just fanned the flames. And even if they worked then, the pressures the EU faces are much greater than those the earlier crises unleashed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are, after all, some 10 million refugees within reasonable distance of Europe, and millions more who, given the chance, would flee Africa’s violence and civil wars; to believe Europe could readily absorb even a small ­fraction of that population at an acceptable social cost is an illusion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, even putting aside the fact that 22.5 per cent of the Eurozone’s young people are out of work, Germany’s own record highlights the dangers that dramatically lifting the <b>refugee</b> intake would involve.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For sure, 12 million ethnic Germans, expelled from Eastern ­Europe at the end of World War II, were rapidly integrated into West Germany at a far more difficult time, as were 2.6 million ethnic Germans after the Soviet Union’s collapse; but Germany’s experience with migration from the ­Middle East and Africa is entirely another story.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those migrants’ unemployment rates are two to three times the native population’s, while their labour force participation rates are 20 percentage points lower.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even among the second generation, educational outcomes are so poor as to guarantee disadvantage: the chances of a German native obtaining some level of post-secondary education are about three times those of a youth from a Turkish immigrant family, while the proportion of young Turks leaving school without a qualification is more than twice that of young Germans.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Accompanying these poorer prospects is widespread alienation: only 40 per cent of German Muslims identify strongly with Germany, significantly below even the 52 per cent recorded in France. The mistrust is reciprocal: in a 2005 survey, 85 per cent of ­Germans said they feared a growing sense of Islamic identity among the country’s migrants would lead to violence; and in 2010, when Thilo Sarrazin, a prominent social democrat, published a book shrilly denouncing Islam’s growing reach, polls showed a majority of the country’s population agreed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The result of mutual distrust is that intermarriage rates for ­Germans of Turkish origin are less than a third those for the mainly Christian Caribbean blacks in the UK.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course, none of that may stop Europe’s elites, who are a law to themselves; but they would be far better off changing course. As even the philosopher Peter Singer now admits, the UN <b>Refugee</b> Convention, which gives those who make it to a signatory country priority over those who cannot, is past its use-by date; it should be replaced by agreements that genuinely share the burden of improving living conditions for the world’s 19.5 million refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And leaping over the borders must no longer be a way of jumping the queue.That is the Abbott government’s achievement; it is why the bodies of dead children no longer float to our shores. Far from denigrating that achievement, as the <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> foolishly did, emulating it would be Europe’s best means of ensuring Aylan and Galip did not die in vain.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Afghans, Iraqis top list for visas</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SARAH MARTIN   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>389 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq and Myanmar have dominated Australia’s humanitarian program in the past decade, accounting for about half of all humanitarian visas granted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Department figures show that in 2013-14, refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq made up 46 per cent of the 11,000 visas allocated under the offshore humanitarian program, followed by Myanmar, which accounted for about 16 per cent.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The figures also show Australia refused about 80 per cent of offshore humanitarian applications in 2013-14, in most cases because the government quota had been filled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year was the first time Syrian refugees were among the top five nationality groups resettled in Australia, with 2200 visas granted under the special humanitarian program, about double the number in 2013. A similar number was granted to Iraqi refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The increase came after the government announced it would increase its intake of refugees displaced by Middle East conflict, committing to accept 4500 Syrians in the next three years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia’s permanent visa humanitarian program comprises an offshore component that resettles people through the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> and a smaller, onshore component for those who seek <b>asylum</b> once arriving in the country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia is one of only about 20 countries that participates in the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>’s resettlement program, which contributes to resettling fewer than 1 per cent of the world’s refugees. Since the government introduced its <b>boat</b> turnback policy, the number of onshore claims has dropped from 7500 in 2013-13 to 2750 last year, with most claimants arriving by air.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While <b>boat</b> arrivals have fluctuated, the total number of refugees coming to Australia via the humanitarian program has been relatively stable at between 12,000 and 13,750 since the mid-1990s Labor temporarily increased the intake to 20,000 places in 2012-13 following recommendations in a report by the Expert Panel on <b>Asylum</b> Seekers aimed at preventing deaths at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After cutting the humanitarian program to 13,750 places last year, the Coalition has since committed to increasing placements to 16,250 in 2017-18, rising to 18,750 places in 2018-19.In 2013-14, there was a surge in offshore applications for protection, with 72,000 people seeking humanitarian visas, an almost 40 per cent jump in demand driven largely by Middle East conflict.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>iraq : Iraq | afgh : Afghanistan | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | casiaz : Central Asia | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | gulfstz : Persian Gulf Region | meastz : Middle East | wasiaz : Western Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020150906eb970001y</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150906eb9700011" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Orphans slip between cracks</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JACQUELIN MAGNAY CALAIS, FRANCE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>898 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was the cuddle that did it: an unprompted wrap of arms, a soft head nuzzling into my side. Ten-year-old orphan Hassam was saying goodbye, not with a distant wave but with that delicious un-inhibited way of children: with unbridled affection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I have handed out water for teenage refugees wilting in the heat of the Serbian sun, trying to walk the railway tracks to an unknown reception in Hungary; I have been surprised at the impeccable manners of young ones at Keleti railway station who immediately offer a stranger their precious bag of crisps and then carefully draw their names in Arabic on my notepad. I have been stunned by families’ intractable determination to make their ­desired western Europe destin­ations in the face of political, economic and real fences — and exhausted toddlers in each arm. And, of course, the photo of drowned infant Aylan Kurdi face-down in the sand on a Turkish beach has moved the world.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet nothing has upset me as much as young Hassam, a fresh-faced “<b>refugee</b> orphan’’ with an impish smile surviving in the deepest corners of the Calais jungle. He has no tent, no belongings. For three months, he has scampered between groups of young men twice his age, eating their scraps and desiring above all to “go London’’. On the walls of an aid tent that has been made un­usable by flooding, he has drawn part of his journey, a train with a bad man saying in Arabic “Careful police, careful police’’. He says he hasn’t either of the two routines of his old life back in Egypt — a shower or attendance at school.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Where are his parents? Where are the aid groups? Why hasn’t the French government stepped in and provided a warm bed and a school place? Scores of Belgium humanitarian workers have spent the past three days filling garbage bags with the rubbish that has accumulated across the sand dunes at the Calais camp, and English aid groups have dropped off food and water parcels but of Hassam and the other youths they have no knowledge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hassam is the youngest migrant at the Calais “Jungle’’ camp hoping to avoid the gendarmerie and he says he wakes each morning dreaming that tonight he will make it on to the back of an ­England-bound lorry. Each night, most of the 4000 jungle inhabitants try their luck to find a truck, including several handfuls of children believing this is the only future they have. Fewer cut the newly installed expensive fence protecting the <span class="companylink">Eurotunnel</span> as they know their chances are much less on the train than on an unsuspecting truck.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hassam’s story is difficult to unravel, although other Calais camp inhabitants confirm that he has no family with him and he quietly sidles up to various groups in the camp he has come to know and trust in order to eat and drink.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mohammed Brouie, a father of four from Algeria, said: “It is wrong that such a child is here. He should be tucked up in a warm bed somewhere; instead, he is here in the camp where there are good people, but not everyone is good: there are people who smoke hashish, and people who like young children — pedophiles; he is in a dangerous place.” Through Brouie, Hassam said he has a mother and father, an older brother and younger sister. One is 16, one is four. His eyes start to tear up as he explains he misses them very much. ‘’I wish they were here with me,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I ask him if they are still alive. He doesn’t know.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hassam remembers being squeezed among hundreds of people on a <b>boat</b> and being scared, arriving in Italy and being grateful to a family whom he didn’t know who allowed him to join them on their trek to Germany. But he didn’t want to stay in Germany and found a second family who dropped him off at the freeway entrance above the Calais jungle camp sometime in June. “They said, ‘Go down there, there are Egyptian people down there’, and pointed here,’’ Hassam said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As I speak to Hassam, several other children join us, desiring their picture to be taken too. Ahmed, 14, is also from Eygpt and said he ran away from his “bad’’ stepfather, despite suffering kidney and eye problems.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two weeks ago, he was bitten by a police dog as he tried unsuccessfully to get inside a truck. Several days ago he was very sick, his friends told me. He sidles up to the photographer. “Please take me with you.’’ Mohamon Allah, a 14-year-old Syrian, lost both parents in his war-torn country and so decided to try to reach Europe. Mohamon describes his home country: “Bombs, shooting, bang, bang.” Another youngster talks of an electric prod that the police have begun using. Yet with undeniable enthusiasm, all of them smilingly insist they will again make a fresh attempt to get to England tonight.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I can do little to dissuade them but this daily dice with the police — and the deadly risks of trying to smuggle themselves among cargo to reach British shores — should not be their lives.Hassam and his other young friends are surely the ones who need the cuddles.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gdev : Development/Humanitarian Aid | gcat : Political/General News | gdip : International Relations | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020150906eb9700011</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SAGE000020150905eb960002g" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Extra - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>It takes more than fortitude to know yourself</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Warwick McFadyen - Warwick McFadyen is a senior writer  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1013 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sunday Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAGE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Self-examination is needed but at times it's not pretty, writes Warwick McFadyen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To know another well were to know one's self.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 19th-century writer William Hazlitt used this quotation from Hamlet as the subhead, and premise, for his collections of essays entitled The Spirit of the Age.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It seems the most apposite aphorism for these times, for this country. To know another well were to know one's self. Would it were so.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is another expression that one "labours under a misapprehension" about such and such, but in these times, it's the reverse, we "breeze along under misapprehension".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The greatest being that we think we know who we are. We trumpet it often enough. We're the luckiest, kindest, happiest people on the planet. We live in the most liveable cities on the planet. We give everyone a fair go. We know ourselves because we know each other. Yes, quite.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This seeming contentedness is why we bridle at criticism. No one should be judging us from afar. And certainly no one should be judging us from within. To do the latter is akin to treasonous behaviour. They may not be called traitors, but surely, they are: step forward Gillian Triggs, Julian Burnside, step forward the ghost of Malcolm Fraser.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 1987, a song was born that reached out to everyone: "We are one, but we are many, and from all the lands on Earth we come, we share a dream and sing with one voice - I am, you are, we are Australian."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It seemed like a good idea at the time. It still is. But it breaks down, however, about "sharing the dream".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To many parts of society - the <b>refugee</b> and those at the margins - life is more attuned to the sentiment of Charles Marlow as he travels to find Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: "We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully." England's punk group Gang of Four used the first bit in one of their songs to describe the individual in society.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a measure of how raw sensitivities are that the moderate is now the shrill, the debate is now a war front and the reasonable is now seen through paranoia. We have reached the stage where we attach to our self-image the extravagances of coquetry. We compensate by attending to our achievements a fantastical delusion that if we do well in one area then that evens out those areas where we don't.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Except, it doesn't.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The spirit of this age comprises many elements: entitlement, greed, corruption, meanness, cold-heartedness, blindness and prejudice. And they drown out the good in people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All these things can be bound in one word: exploitation. It can be boiled down to this equation: I exploit you to enrich a) my wealth, b) my career, c) my status, or d) my power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hello, health services workers, g'day convenience store and fast-food staff, welcome refugees, have a nice day, those who worship a different god, keep coming, corporate giants, and a special cheerio to our Indigenous brothers and sisters. We acknowledge you as first owners of the land - and let's leave it at that, shall we. We have submarines and fighter jets to buy to protect our borders, and to defend our national security in foreign lands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mind you, you're all entitled to a fair go. After all, it's the bedrock of our self-belief. Yet entitlement is the split personality of the Australian psyche. As that famous philosopher Donny Osmond once said: "A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Well, except a now-removed Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament. Bronwyn Bishop felt entitled to a lot of things she thought were within the rules of her engagement. And frankly, I don't see how anyone could possibly do their job without a helicopter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If this year has shown anything in this country, it's that we all need internal fortitude. So much scaremongering, so little time until the next election. It's a sad reflection on the age when a clumsily worded email sets off a chain reaction of protests and a clearly exasperated Immigration Minister decrying Fairfax and the ABC as waging a "jihad". Just as a sidenote, it would help if Mr Dutton used the word in its correct parlance, that is, to strive, to apply oneself, to struggle, to persevere.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Everything is seen through an ideological prism that cuts and bends the light; so how can you see, really see, what is going on? Where do you look?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first place to look is on the streets, that is where the un-Australians roam. That is why we almost had Operation Fortitude - to pluck them from our breast.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As a fairly recent immigrant to this country (my ancestors arrived by <b>boat</b> only 150 years ago) I now realise I'll have to carry my passport with me at all times. I have the passenger list of the ship in which they sailed from that wild home of rebels and outcasts - Scotland - in the 1850s. Rodrick and Sarah sailed with their children. Rodrick was a farmer. He could not read or write. The family was sponsored by Sarah's brother.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I think I'll keep that with me, too. Just to be on the safe side. You never know when Operation Fortitude Mark II may be launched, after all. A PSO could stop me at any time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What would Hazlitt say of this age? Perhaps he would observe that The Age of Entitlement is a misnomer. An "age" has a starting point, and an ending. It makes a mockery of Joe Hockey's pronouncement. This one would seem to vanish into the horizon. Unless we acknowledge and then tackle that, we will never truly know ourselves.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | victor : Victoria (Australia) | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SAGE000020150905eb960002g</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SHD0000020150905eb9600007" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Premier says Aylan image a wake-up call</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>»NATALIE BOCHENSKI, KIRSTY NEEDHAM NSW POLITICAL EDITOR ADAM GARTRELL NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>702 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Queensland</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">Queensland Premier</span> says the picture of a Syrian toddler washed ashore on a Turkish beach was a "wake-up call" to Australia to search for a more humanitarian approach on <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Annastacia Palaszczuk said she, like all Queenslanders, was disturbed by the image of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, who drowned with his brother and mother while fleeing conflict in their home country.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"What we are seeing across the world is what happens when wars cause a massive impact on society, where people have to flee those countries and seek refuge for a better life," she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Europe is addressing that issue, and you know, Australia should have a wake-up call and look at how the rest of the world is treating these poor people who are actually fleeing wartime situations."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Speaking in her electorate of Inala in Brisbane's south-west on Saturday, Ms Palaszczuk said its welcoming and inclusive spirit should be the standard nationwide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"These are federal issues, and [federal Opposition Leader] Bill Shorten has made it very clear, Labor's position is we need to have a humanitarian look at the way we treat people," she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"My grandparents came from a <b>boat</b> after the Second World War. They came to Australia [from Europe] with nothing. Australia has been built by people who've come from all around the world for a better place, and to build a better society."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, NSW Premier Mike Baird has challenged Prime Minister Tony Abbott to do more to help in the <b>refugee</b> crisis, arguing: "Stopping the boats can't be where this ends."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The call came after Mr Abbott appeared to shut the door on an increase in Australia's intake of Syrian refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Baird wrote on <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> late on Saturday that he "felt sick with overwhelming sorrow", despair and anger at the image of the drowned Syrian toddler, whose body was washed ashore on a Turkish beach. He said the photo "changes everything".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I turned away, but that image will never leave me. That photo isn't just a story of one tragedy. It is the story of thousands of real people in a fight for life itself."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a challenge to the Abbott government's border protection policy, Mr Baird said the federal government needed to go beyond its commitment to increasing Australia's humanitarian intake over the coming years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We should do it now," he wrote. "It's a great thing that we don't have children drowning at sea trying to get to our shores. That has been a significant humanitarian commitment. But stopping the boats can't be where this ends. It is surely where humanitarianism begins."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Baird said he would discuss what further action could be taken with the federal government over the coming days, and "assure the PM that he can count on NSW to do whatever is needed". He wrote: "We cannot see the images we have seen, and feel the things we have felt, and then go back to business as usual."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earlier on Saturday, Mr Abbott maintained his position despite impassioned pleas from within his own party for the government to do more to address the worsening crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked if he was considering Coalition MP Craig Laundy's call for the government to do more, Mr Abbott said only that the government had decided last year to take an extra 4400 refugees from the region.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He insisted Australia took its international obligations seriously but gave no sign he was considering doing more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hopes were briefly raised when Mr Abbott suggested Australia may have scope to accept more refugees in the future because of the government's success in stopping the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"One of the good things about stopping the boats is that we are now in a much better position to increase our <b>refugee</b> and humanitarian intake," he said. But his office later sought to clarify the comment, saying he was referring to an existing commitment to increase the <b>refugee</b> intake by 5000 over the next four years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">World — Page 22.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Why don't they turn back boats?</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nick Miller   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1329 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sunday Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAGE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First Drop-in</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SUNDAY EXPLAINER</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The extraordinary flood of refugees and economic migrants arriving in Europe demands a far more complicated response than a repeat of Australia's ruthless <b>asylum</b> seeker policy. Nick Miller explains.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■How big is the <b>refugee</b> problem on Europe's borders?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Big. Really big. Robert Visser, director of the European <b>Asylum</b> Support Office, says conflict creates refugees, and there is more conflict near Europe's borders than there used to be. He points to Ukraine, the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">International Organisation for Migration</span> estimates that more than 350,000 migrants were detected at the EU's borders between January and August.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Violence and civil war in Syria and Iraq have displaced millions. An estimated 1.7 million refugees are in Turkey, 1.2 million in Lebanon, more than 600,000 in Jordan, hundreds of thousands in Iraq and Egypt. Another 7 million are internally displaced inside Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On top of this, estimates of the numbers of people fleeing sub-Saharan Africa range up to another million - many of these end up in Libya or Tunisia, waiting to cross the Mediterranean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■How many are crossing into Europe?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The flow of <b>asylum</b> seekers into Europe is increasing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to <span class="companylink">Eurostat</span>, 662,000 people applied for <b>asylum</b> in the EU in 2014. This was almost 200,000 more than the year before, and double the number in 2011.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The number is going to be even higher this year. Already it is about half a million, an EU official told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>. Before June, there were between 60,000 and 70,000 new applications every month. In June, there were 88,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■Who are they?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since 2012 by far the biggest national group has fled Syria. In 2014 Syrians made up 128,000 of the total <b>asylum</b> applicants - followed by 47,000 from Eritrea, 43,000 from Afghanistan, 38,000 from Kosovo, 31,000 from Serbia, then Pakistan, Iraq and Nigeria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■Are they all allowed to stay?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course, not all <b>asylum</b> applications are approved. By Visser's estimate, up to a third of those seeking <b>asylum</b> in Europe do not qualify as refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is political debate over those standards. Some say that migrants fleeing abject poverty, mandatory conscription or major civil unrest should be treated as refugees. Others say Europe is being too lenient, treating many as refugees who are really just seeking a better life in a better country, with better options for employment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■How do they get into Europe?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to Frontex figures, in 2014 the majority of the refugees came over the central Mediterranean, on boats from Libya and Tunisia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But this year the numbers coming by that route have almost halved - instead, there has been a huge surge in people coming over the eastern Mediterranean, at the land border between Greece and Turkey, or more usually over the sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finally, there has also been a huge leap - more than doubling - in the numbers coming from or through the (non-EU) Balkan states such as Serbia, moving north to the borders with Austria and Hungary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■Where do they hope to go?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The short answer is, somewhere better. Refugees themselves differ. I have spoken to some determined to reach Britain, others who say Britain is "very bad", citing its chequered history in the Middle East. Others talked of Canada, or Sweden.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many want to go to Germany, because they know it is the most welcoming country, one where they stand the best chance of finding a community, starting a new life, getting a job, rather than ending up in a stagnant southern European economy or an eastern European camp in an unsympathetic, poor region.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Often, language is the determining factor. Those from Africa, especially, have English as a second language. They want education and employment, and ending up in an English-speaking country would make it easier to integrate faster.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■How is the EU managing this?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The EU's "Dublin" regulations require that an <b>asylum</b> seeker is processed, their claim assessed, in the first country where they touch European soil. After that, if their application is successful, they are resettled in countries that volunteer to take them. This system is just not working.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The number of pending <b>asylum</b> applications rises every month. In September last year 434,000 people were in limbo, waiting to hear whether their application would be approved. By January it was 506,000. In June, the most recent month covered by <span class="companylink">Eurostat</span>'s figures, it was up to 568,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After processing, only a handful of countries take almost all the refugees - Germany and Sweden welcome almost half, with France, Italy, Switzerland and Britain taking most of the rest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This system operates in addition to the "resettlement" system: countries taking refugees directly from camps on Syria's borders. Countries (including Australia) take thousands each year, with refugees assessed in terms of risk, urgency and medical need.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■Why doesn't Europe just do what Australia did?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, some people are suggesting just that - UKIP's Nigel Farage, and Tony Abbott, for example.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are two main reasons why it's more complicated for Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">First, Europe is not an island. There are many overland routes to Europe - some refugees are even appearing in Scandinavia. Last week, a 31-year-old Syrian <b>asylum</b> seeker found refuge in Oslo after riding a bicycle across Russia's Arctic border with Norway.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has, so far, not needed a "turn back the bicycles" policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Countless roads criss-cross borders busy with modern commerce. It would take an extraordinary investment in infrastructure and personnel to close and secure the thousands of kilometres of Europe's land borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A sea is a natural barrier. But the sea routes to Europe are much kinder than those to Australia. In the summer, the Mediterranean is often a bathtub dotted with cavorting dolphins. From the Greek island of Kos, the twinkling lights of Bodrum in Turkey are just a few hours' paddle in a dinghy away for the determined.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Obviously, the dangers are still there, especially as people smugglers and refugees resort to tiny, overloaded boats not fit for the voyage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it must feel like a much less daunting option than the voyage to Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turning back every <b>boat</b> on the wide Mediterranean would be a huge, massively expensive naval exercise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Also, if a <b>refugee</b> has come via Libya, their <b>boat</b> would be turned back to a lawless, violent, near-failed state. It's no Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■What about public sentiment?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even if it were practical to adopt a more "brutal" (in the words of the <span class="companylink">New York Times</span>) <b>refugee</b> policy for Europe, there is neither the political nor public will. Europeans differ on the details (especially in the east) but many countries, especially influential Germany, feel a strong moral imperative to help those fleeing conflict at the first instance, rather than reject them unless they apply through the slow, congested official channels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The shocking photo last week of the dead three-year-old Syrian boy on the Turkish beach has largely inspired compassion and a push to welcome more refugees, rather than to try to deter them from coming.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■Where to from here?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Next week, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker is expected to unveil a stopgap plan for relocating 120,000 more refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the long term, the EU needs a continent-wide solution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">European states are bickering over how to spread the load more evenly. The aim is firstly to take some of the pressure off the countries where migrants arrive (such as Italy, Greece and Hungary), by sharing the processing duties on <b>asylum</b> applications.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then, Germany and Sweden want a mandatory quota system for settling refugees, sharing them out over the continent. Neither the refugees themselves, nor some of the countries more antipathetic to migrants, are happy with that idea. So far, there seems to be no consensus.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>iofmig : International Organization for Migration</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>syria : Syria | austr : Australia | turk : Turkey | victor : Victoria (Australia) | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | balkz : Balkan States | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | eurz : Europe | meastz : Middle East | medz : Mediterranean | wasiaz : Western Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SAGE000020150905eb9600007</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SHD0000020150905eb960002d" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Extra</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Whatever you do Tony, don't mention the war</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Charles Waterstreet   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>807 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One good thing about the past is that it is over. Done. Gone. Why we joined the invasion of Iraq in 2003 is now largely up to historians and cemetery keepers to assess and argue over. Tony Abbott's support for his then government's decision to back Britain and America should not weigh heavily on his mind. This next week is an entirely different problem. Last Wednesday Citizen General (retired) David Petraeus, from the podium of the <span class="companylink">Lowy Institute</span>, informally requested Australia to join the air strikes against militant groups in Syria. Mr Abbott said he would need a week, but that everything that needed to be done, should be done.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Orator Abbott set the tone in the relevant assessment of the evil of <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> by comparing Nazi outrages with the outrages committed by <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>: "[Nazis] had sufficient sense of shame to try to hide it. These people boast of their evil."</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"These people" are inevitably spoken of by Orator Abbott as "death cults" and never as ISIS or ISIL or <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> or <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> for that matter. He will have to spell out exactly who he means when he decides to accept Mr Petraeus' unauthorised invitation to join the bombing. One man's death cult might be another man's saviour. It should be remembered that David Petraeus is a retired general, convicted of sleeping with the enemy, his biographer Paula Blackwell, and stealing state secrets and giving them to her, then lying about it. He was convicted and fined $100,000. He gave her code words for secret intelligence programs, identities of covert officers and National Security Council discussions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Petraeus was on probation when he visited us. I wonder if the Australian Border Force picked it up? Nobody knows the temptations that the subject of a biography can withstand when grilled by a beautiful, gloriously fit, matching you in a hundred pushups, and having total access on international trips babe. Bob Hawke succumbed to his biographer. I succumbed to myself more times than I could count in my autobiographies. The point is Orator Abbott should consider the source of this invitation to bomb Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The thing that stops Orator Abbott from becoming the Great Orator Abbott is his mouth, and the inability to control the words exiting from his mouth as his lips move. At almost exactly the same time as he was extolling Nazi secrecy against the look-at-me-propaganda-style of death cults, The New York Times editorial team were berating the Orator for passing the Border Force Act, yes, same one as last week, which provides two-year sentences on detention camp employees for talking about conditions in them, no matter how barbaric. Journalists are filtered to get on Nauru and charged $8000 for an application that might be rejected, no refunds. This is a farce of Orwellian standards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian Senate Committee reported that the Nauru Centre is a purgatory where children are sexually abused, grass is exchanged by guards for ass, and <b>asylum</b> seekers stitch their lips together in protest. The New York Times scolded Australia, "instead of stopping the abuses, the Australian government has sought to hide them from the world". In that regard, we are one grade below death cults, but technically on par with Abbott's view of Nazi Germany.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Orator Abbott is promoting his <b>boat</b>-interception program to European governments, which last week faced the consequences of their <b>refugee</b> rejections when young children were beached like baby seals, but dressed in red pants, socks and sandals. When The New York Times condemns a democracy for its cruelty to immigrants, when The Donald promises to build a 3000 kilometre , 3-metre high border to keep Mexican and South American criminals and rapists out and make Mexico pay for it, when the world is faced by the direct consequences of our actions in invading the Middle East, sending rockets to entomb Gaddafi, then the past is not over. It is not gone. It has just caught up with us and is demanding atonement and compensation, and an admission of our outrageous folly. The victims include our own veterans, our own wounded. The past demands an open inquiry into the truth of why we joined the Iraq invasion, yet refuse to take the refugees from that grievous decision, and hide the truth of the wretched war, and the truth of the evil island at Nauru. The Great Orator Mandela after leaving prison and becoming President of South Africa set up a Truth Commission where reconciliation would allow the past and its resentments to be really gone, to focus on what really happened and refocus on a future where we all must live in harmony or die in disgrace.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>aqdirq : Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News | gterr : Terrorism | gvio : Military Action | gcns : National Security | gcrim : Crime/Courts | grisk : Risk News | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | sydney : Sydney | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | nswals : New South Wales</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SHD0000020150905eb960002d</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SHD0000020150905eb960003o" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Extra</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Before Twitter, <b>boat</b> tragedies unfolded agonisingly slowly</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Kirsty Needham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>552 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The lifeless image of the Syrian toddler washed onto a Turkish beach has horrified the world and sharpened scrutiny of Europe's response to the <b>refugee</b> crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It evokes memories of a tragedy closer to home, of three baby girls and two infant boys dashed onto rocks, among 15 small children drowned off Christmas Island.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whatever Europe does next, it must not harden its heart in response to such scenes and declare Not In My Backyard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Before <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> had gained ubiquity, the Christmas Island <b>boat</b> wreck unfolded agonisingly slowly, low-tech, in 2010.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Communications were poor. Help was late. The story reached the mainland as despairing locals stood on limestone cliffs and talked on crackling phone lines to distant reporters, including this one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I saw a person dying in front of me and there was nothing we could do to save them," Christmas Island councillor Kamar Ismail said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Babies, children, maybe three or four years old. They were hanging on to bits of timber. They were screaming, 'Help! help! help!' We were throwing lifejackets out to them but many of them couldn't swim a few metres to reach them."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fifty <b>asylum</b> seekers died. Seena, 9, was orphaned. When a funeral was held in Sydney, Scott Morrison and Tony Abbott complained about taxpayers' money spent to fly relatives, including Seena, to bury loved ones.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The deaths became a turning point in Australian <b>asylum</b> seeker policy. It was too hard to bear. Australia decided it didn't want them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Within months the Gillard government announced the Malaysia Solution, a <b>refugee</b> swap that would send new <b>boat</b> arrivals back on the next plane to Kuala Lumpur. The opposition went a step further, promising to turn back the boats at sea. Politicians justified these policies on the grounds that stopping refugees getting on boats would stop children dying at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Where would they go? That wasn't Australia's problem.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The sheer number of families now fleeing <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> shows the nonsense of a policy that claims to save lives by preventing boats landing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A solution must involve a plan for settlement, involving multiple countries offering safe haven, not island horror camps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Christmas Island Shire president Gordon Thomson, who guided his community through the 2010 tragedy, hopes Europe finds a different path from Australia's.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The temptation to bury the head in the sand and put up the shutters, on the mind and the border, that's a stupid response," he said on Friday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"No one wants to see people dying, no one does, but you can have a better system of taking in refugees."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Key differences in Europe's response are emerging: British tabloids and online petitions urging Britain to take more refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Importantly, we now know three-year-old Aylan Kurdi's name.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian government blocks release of <b>asylum</b> seekers' identities seeking to avoid humanising, to avoid sympathy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So the five babies drowned at Christmas Island were anonymous in reports. The West Australian Coroner published the roll call a year on: Sam Hussaini (three months), Soha Zareh (nine months), Zahra Ibrihimi (11 months), Mariam Al Khafaji and Koorosh Khorshidi (both one).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Would these names, if known at the time, have spurred Australians to demand better of their politicians?</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>NATASHA BLUCHER: The image of Aylan Kurdi’s body on a Turkish beach hits home when I think of the children in detention right on our doorstep</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>661 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Northern Territory News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NORTHT</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NTNews</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There’s a picture you might have seen in the past few days. It’s been beamed out through newspapers, social media, and right into your living room. It’s a picture of a little boy, three years old, lying dead, face down in the sand on a Turkish beach. He has little blue shorts on, a red T-shirt, and his tiny shoes are still on his lifeless little feet. It’s broken the heart of every person who’s seen it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His name was Aylan Kurdi. But there’s another picture of Aylan, grinning shyly in a picture with his older brother before their family’s desperate attempt at a journey to safety. Strangely, it’s this picture of him, alive and smiling, that stops my heart.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In this picture, Aylan looks just like another little boy I know. This little boy, whose name I can’t tell you, lives right here in Darwin. But he’s not one of the grinning, rough and tumble little boys you see at your child’s day care.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This little boy lives a 50 minute drive out of town, just out of your sight, at Wickham Point detention centre. He’s got the same dark hair, little oval cherub face, and ears that adorably stick out at the top, just a little bit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But his eyes are different. When I look at this little boy’s eyes, they don’t quite focus on me. When I try to play ‘three little piggies’ on the palm of his hand, he doesn’t giggle. He just stares straight ahead, with lifeless eyes. Eyes I imagine would be the same as little Aylan’s, lying there on that beach, face down in the sand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This little boy’s family came from the same region as Aylan’s family, just over a year ago. They made it without drowning, but they were sent to Nauru. It was there that his parents first started having fears for his development. There was nothing for him to play with, and there was no safe place for him to explore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The crackle of security guards’ radios and the white phosphate rocks were his only stimulation, except for the few hours each week that he could play with toys provided by <span class="companylink">Save the Children</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His parents were never able to take him outside the camp to see the world. Soon, he just stopped learning, and his behaviour changed. He started to wake up crying, and stopped interacting with adults and other children. Eventually his little chatter ceased altogether.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now he lives just outside Darwin, brought here after his mother attempted suicide, and nearly succeeded. She told me this was because she was powerless to seek treatment for her little boy, and could no longer watch his childhood being destroyed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Soon, they will be taken back to Nauru. There will be no treatment for him – no occupational therapy, no child psychiatrist.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So please, when you scroll through your <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> feed and see that tiny lifeless body on the beach, don’t just grieve for him. Grieve for the 110 children in detention in Australia, who are not dead but are still becoming lifeless.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And remember most of those children are detained just beyond your front doorstep, but you can’t see them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All of us, especially those of us here in the Territory, should stare at that image of little Aylan so closely that we have to wipe the wet sand off our faces. In the words of British poet Warsan Shire, “no one puts their children on a <b>boat</b>, unless the water is safer than the land”.Natasha is the advocacy co-ordinator for the Darwin <b>Asylum</b> Seeker Support and Advocacy Network (DASSAN). For more information about DASSAN, go to www.dassan.org[http://www.dassan.org]</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Tide of migrant misery in Europeneeds a rational debate</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CAROLINE MARCUS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>798 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>53</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IMAGES of a lifeless toddler being carried from the cruel seas that claimed him were nothing short of haunting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How could the corpse of a three-year-old be anything other than highly distressing?</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the ensuing calls for Europe to roll out the red carpet for these desperate migrants is not only naive, it’s akin to standing on the other side of the English Channel hollering for someone who can’t swim to make the crossing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aylan Kurdi, the now immortalised boy in the red T-shirt and tiny black velcro sneakers, was a Syrian <b>refugee</b> who’d set off alongside his five-year-old brother, mother and father from Turkey bound for the Greek island of Kos on an overloaded <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The family had paid thousands to people smugglers – four of whom have since been arrested – to take the treacherous journey, in the hope they’d make it further into Europe, then possibly to Canada, where their <b>refugee</b> application had already been rejected in June.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Only the father Abdullah survived when their <b>boat</b> sank this week. The heartbreaking set of photos depicting Aylan facedown in the surf, his limp body then carried away by a Turkish police officer, quickly went viral, effectively making him the human face of the <b>refugee</b> crisis sweeping Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If these extraordinarily powerful images of a dead Syrian child washed up on a beach don’t change Europe’s attitude to refugees, what will?” British newspaper The Independent asked, choosing to splash the photo on its front page along with several other papers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The social media reaction was all about the “feels”, with people clambering over each other to show off how compassionate they were.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I cried for hours!” they wailed, emphasis on the word “I”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you didn’t immediately state your intention to personally house a Syrian <b>refugee</b>, you were branded heartless. Predictably but paradoxically, it’s reignited criticism of Australia’s own border policies, which has successfully ended deaths at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> ran a scathing but misguided editorial calling Abbott’s approach to <b>asylum</b> seekers “unconscionable” and “inhumane”, urging Europe not to follow suit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But what would really be unconscionable is a return to the terminal Rudd-Gillard years that saw more than 1000 lives lost offshore when former Prime Minister John Howard’s border controls were lethally relaxed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Europe, there have already been more than 2500 migrant drownings in the Mediterranean this year alone, according to the <span class="companylink">United Nations <b>refugee</b> agency</span><span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>. Conservative British MP Daniel Hannan wrote this week that immigration policy was being used as a “decency test”, making debate less about the actual welfare of refugees than proving each privileged Westerner’s level of perceived kindness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We see here the habitual error of the Left: the elevation of motive over outcome,” Hannan says. “Never mind the consequences, provided we mean well.” He says that by saying words to the effect “the migrants have been through hell and we should welcome them”, we’re basically signing a contract with people smugglers who put greed before their charges’ safety.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They’re saying that, instead of taking those who have queued patiently, or those in the camps who have been classified by the <span class="companylink">UN</span> as refugees, we should allow a lucky few to jump the queue by breaking the law,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a valid argument that republishing such disturbing pictures of dead kids, normally considered unthinkable by news outlets, is analogous to “moral porn” for progressives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Libertarian commentator Brendan O’Neill compared the photographs of Aylan to well-known images of half-starved Ethiopian children from the 1980s and dead Palestinian children from the Gaza conflict last year, saying “the sad or hungry or dead child has become a substitute for serious analysis or rational commentary”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It shuts down discussion,” O’Neill writes in The Spectator. “‘You don’t think Israel is evil? Well, look at this photo of this blown-up Palestinian kid.’ It’s cheap moralism, emotionalism taking the place of thoughtfulness. It’s the victory of the visceral over the rational.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“And we really need a rational debate about the migrant crisis, rather than people holding up a dead-child snuff photo and saying: ‘I cried, therefore I’m good’.” I personally see value in publishing these photos, if only in the hope it will prompt European leaders to look for a solution that’s more tangible and complex than holding up cheery “welcome” signs to desperate people willing to take deadly risks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tempting refugees to take dangerous journeys will not solve tragedies like the death of little Aylan; it will only lead to many, many more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Caroline Marcus is a journalist with A Current Affair.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>EDITORIAL Opening doors to the needy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>391 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>59</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AUSTRALIANS have traditionally been proud to open our doors to needy people who have been displaced by war and genocide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We have been willing to show generosity to people from across the globe, particularly after World War II.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This has brought numerous benefits. The Snowy Mountains scheme – a network of 16 dams, seven power stations and 225km of tunnels, pipelines and aqueducts – was built between 1949 and 1974.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is renowned for bringing together more than 100,000 men and women from more than 30 countries, and the united manner in which they toiled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Similarly, Australia opened its doors to Cambodian refugees fleeing after the genocidal Khmer Rouge was overthrown in 1979.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Public pressure now is growing to show similar generosity to Syrians displaced by the havoc being wreaked in their country by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad and the barbaric <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> terrorist outfit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Tony Abbott is being criticised for hard-heartedness but has left open the possibility of increasing our humanitarian intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia is, rightly, participating in the Coalition effort to tackle <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>. There is global opposition to what Mr Abbott accurately labels a death cult.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A similar global effort is needed to help the victims of the gruesome conflict being waged in Syria. This can create a cohesive plan to deal with the flood of humanity now overwhelming Europe in particular.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The scale of the tragedy was graphically illustrated this week with the heart-wrenching picture of three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi, whose body was washed on to a beach in Bodrum, southern Turkey, after a <b>refugee boat</b> capsized.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This rightly triggered an outpouring of grief and calls for action. That action must be well planned, effective and global.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott trumpets his Government’s achievement in stopping <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats reaching Australia, arguing this has prevented drownings and other tragedies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are not a hard-hearted people. We feel sympathy for those in Syria affected by conflict and barbarism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The world needs to deal with the worsening humanitarian crisis in Syria. It would be churlish not to join in an effort to help these people and open our doors to them, just as we have before.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Responsibility for all editorial comment is taken by The Editor, Andrew Holman, 31 Waymouth St, Adelaide, 5000</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The Syrian equation</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tom Allard, David Wroe  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2136 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Syria The government isn’t levelling with the public about the impact of expanding the air campaign</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><pre class="articlePre" >The Syrian equation
Syria’s civil war has left 320,000 dead and made half of its population refugees.

Syria
Population                   23 million
Sunni Muslim Arabs          59.2%
Alawites                           11.3%
Christians                         11.2%
Kurds                                 8.9%
Druze                                 3.2%
Other                                 6.2%

Sources: <span class="companylink">Columbia University</span> ,
<span class="companylink">Syrian Observatory for Human Rights</span>, <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>, </pre>
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After months of training, the carefully selected recruits of Division 30 slipped across the border of Turkey into Syria, ready to do battle with <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> and the other militants that now control most of this tortured nation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A team of 54 fighters, Division 30 was at the vanguard of a United States effort to raise thousands of moderate Arab Sunni fighters to capture territory bombed by coalition forces and drive Islamist fighters from northern Syria. Led by Syrian Army defector Colonel Nadim al-Hassan and whittled down from 1200 experienced Syrian insurgents who applied to join the program, Division 30's first foray on the battlefield was brief.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was an unmitigated disaster.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just days after arriving at the Syrian border town of Azaz, Division 30 was ambushed by <span class="companylink">Jabhat al-Nusra</span>, the <span class="companylink">al-Qaeda</span> affiliate also known as the <span class="companylink">Nusra Front</span> and believed by intelligence agencies to be harbouring an elite cell of hardened <span class="companylink">al-Qaeda</span> terrorists in northern Syria plotting attacks against the West.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Colonel Hassan was kidnapped along with one of his deputies and at least another four fighters. The next day, Division 30's headquarters was attacked, with five of its cadres killed, 18 wounded and 20 more taken prisoner. The prisoners were released, but only after Division 30 released a statement praising <span class="companylink">Nusra Front</span> as "holy warriors" and vowing never to fight them again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a stunning capitulation from a group of fighters who benefited from top-level Pentagon training and equipment, as well as air support from the US-led coalition. It is also an indictment of the failed military strategy in Syria that relies heavily on air power, and one that Australia is preparing to join, with cabinet's national security committee due next week to extend the area of operations of its six Hornet fighter jets bombing IS targets in Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost 12 months since US President Barack Obama announced the air campaign in Syria and Iraq to "degrade and destroy" IS and cripple the <span class="companylink">Nusra Front</span>, both groups and their jihadist fellow travellers have expanded their reach dramatically.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Kurdish forces have succeeded in repelling IS along Syria's northern border, IS has marched further south and controls more than 50 per cent of Syria's land mass. This week, it captured a neighbourhood in the Syrian capital Damascus, taking it closer to the heart of the power base of the Assad regime than ever.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the north-east, the <span class="companylink">Nusra Front</span> and another Islamist group, Ahrar al-Sham - under the banner of the Army of Conquest - has taken control of the Idlib province, pushing back Syrian government forces, routing smaller moderate rebels armed by the US and co-opting others along the way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, the Syrian armed forces loyal to dictator Bashar al-Assad continue to use brutal and indiscriminate force to suppress the rebels, Islamist and moderate alike.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The end result for Syria's population is unprecedented misery. The human toll of the 4½-year conflict has only worsened, producing the worst <b>refugee</b> crisis in a generation. The exodus of about 400,000 Syrians overwhelming Europe this year represents just 10 per cent of those who have left the country, mostly for squalid camps in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. Seven million more Syrians have been forced to move from their homes. In total, half of Syria's population has been displaced. Up to 320,000 have died. Into a hellhole riven by sectarian and ethnic divisions, Australian fighter jets are likely to soon enter the fray.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a battle space of extraordinary brutality and complexity, the Australian mission is meant to be straightforward - target IS fighters as an adjunct to its existing operations in Iraq. From an operational standpoint, there is a tactical logic to the move. As the Chief of the Defence Force Mark Binskin said in Canberra on Wednesday, it makes little sense for Australian planes to have to wait until the militants cross into Iraq before they can target them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It will also give Australian fighter pilots the flexibility to chase IS fighters should they retreat from Iraq across the border into Syria. But, says former Australian ambassador to Syria Ross Burns, the expanded operations won't make "the slightest bit of difference" in degrading IS, let alone turn the tide of anguish in Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Why are we doing it now, six or nine months after the raids of the Americans and Jordanians and the others have proven to have no effect?" he says. "[IS] base themselves among the civilian population ... you simply can't get at them easily from the air.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The only solution is a diplomatic and political one and you don't hear the government talk about that at all."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott government has not only failed to articulate a coherent strategy for bringing stability to Syria, it has suggested it doesn't even care to formulate one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When asked what a future, more stable Syria might look like should IS be routed, Defence Minister Kevin Andrews replies: "That's a complex question beyond what we are considering at the present time ... that's not part of our consideration ... We're not involved in the broader conflict in Syria. We are not involved in the conflict involving the Assad regime."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Rodger Shanahan, a former Australian military officer who served with the United Nations in Syria, says the government isn't levelling with the public about the impact of expanding the air campaign to Syria and the possible pitfalls. "All they talk about is bombing <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> in Syria. They tie in bombing in Syria with the ground campaign in Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Yet they have not said how they will sequester targets in Syria that are just impacting upon Iraq. There's several Syrian army brigades fighting battles in eastern Syria ... By destroying <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> targets in Syria, there's a real possibility you might be relieving pressure on Assad's forces."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, the fact that the despised dictatorship of Assad shares with Australia, the US and its allies a common enemy in IS lies at the heart of the coalition's strategic dilemma.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moderate Syrian Arab rebels won't rally to join the US-led campaign and provide it with the essential ground forces because they are told that they can't attack Syrian government forces.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More fundamentally, it is the intractable, violent chaos in Syria - rooted in the rebellion against Assad - that allows IS and other jihadist groups to flourish. While Assad remains in power, that chaos won't end.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It will only be through a political solution in the shape of a managed transition [of power from the Assad regime] that Syrians can begin to take back control of their territory from groups like IS," says analyst Charles Lister, of the Doha Brookings Centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But, while a political settlement is the only chance of bringing peace to the benighted Syria people, it will be extremely difficult to bring about, even if there is a glimpse of progress.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We are seeing the very early beginning of the process where the Saudis, the Iranians, the Russians, the Americans and the Gulf states are finding the broad parameters of a political solution for Syria," says Bob Bowker, another former Australian ambassador to Syria. The broad plan, Bowker says, is for Assad to depart but for his political loyalists to remain in power. Assad's government draws support from one-third of the population, at most, so a coalition would ideally need to be formed with some of the less odious Sunni Arab leaders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The problem is that moderate Sunni Arabs leaders are hard to find. The major Islamist groups who hold sway and control territory have all expressed genocidal intent towards Alawites, Christians and other minority groups who support Assad, he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And the idea of replicating the strategy of the Iraqi surge, of co-opting some of the militant Sunnis in Syria to support the US-led effort and a new inclusive government - as suggested this week by former US commander in Iraq David Petraeus - is fraught, Shanahan argues.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That shift of support from <span class="companylink">al-Qaeda in Iraq</span> largely relied on appealing to tribal loyalties that don't exist among the Islamist insurgents in Syria, which are driven largely by religious fervour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Shanahan puts it: "You can't negotiate with these Islamist groups. They take their orders from God."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Any chance of success will rely on bringing together the regional and world powers that support the various factions battling in Syria and have ruthlessly pushed their own interests in Syria regardless of the misery it has reaped. But there is little evidence so far that Iran and Russia, Assad's backers, are seriously considering forcing him to step down. Turkey appears more interested in quashing the stateless Kurds than combating Islamists in Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Crushing Iranian proxies in Yemen is the priority for the Saudis and the Gulf states, which are believed to have ceased deploying its fighter jets against Islamist insurgent targets in Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The West has little leverage over the Saudis and Gulf states, who are scandalously refusing to host any of the refugees from Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The US itself is a reluctant player, scarred by its failed experiments of regime change in the Middle East - from arming Osama bin Laden's mujahideen to overthrow the Soviets in Afghanistan, to the toppling of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Its focus is to push IS from Iraq and restore stability there, a task that is hugely challenging and mostly foundering but, says Shanahan, "a walk in the park compared to Syria".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even if Assad can be persuaded to exit, Syria will remain divided, Bowker says. "Syria is gone. There's no way it can be reconstructed on a basis where there is complete political authority out of Damascus. Any political deal will involve the disaggregation of Syria. Enclaves will remain under the control of the various factions."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The violence and conflict, he says, will likely continue. Even so, the influx of refugees from Syria has brought the problem - and the scale of the human tragedy - to the doorstep of Europe, creating a new dynamic and engaging its leaders and citizens in the crisis like never before.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the end, the best hope may well be the outrage of the global community, driven by heart-wrenching images such as that of Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler photographed lifeless and alone on a Turkish beach after a failed <b>boat</b> crossing to Greece.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If nothing else, perhaps regional and world powers can be shamed into action.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Syrian equation</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Syria’s civil war has left 320,000 dead and made half of its population refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Players</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Assad regime President Bashar al-Assad’s government is backed internally by Alawites, Christians and a dwindling number of minority groups; now controls less than 25% of Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Supported by Russia and Iran.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> The Islamist group has seized vast tracts of territory. Its self-proclaimed caliphate with</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">its capital in the Syrian city of Raqqa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Nusra Front</span> (<span class="companylink">Jabhat al-Nusra</span>) The Syrian branch of <span class="companylink">al-Qaeda</span> holds sway in north-west Syria. It is believed to shelter the Khorasan group, a cadre of hardened <span class="companylink">al-Qaeda</span> operatives allegedly plotting attacks in the West. Bitter enemy of IS.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ahrar al-Sham A homegrown anti-Assad group with thousands of Sunni fighters. Grounded in militant</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Islam, it has co-operated with the <span class="companylink">Nusra Front</span> to rout Assad forces. Targeted by US air strikes last year but has recently been mooted as a possible US ally.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kurds The most potent anti-IS fighting force, seizing territory in northern Syria and Iraq this year with the assistance of US-led air strikes. They now control more than half of the Turkey-Syria border.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">US-aligned Sunni rebels Holds territory in Syria’s south. Mostly in disarray after battlefield losses to Islamist rebel groups. Efforts by the US to train and arm new units have failed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">US-led coalition US, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Gulf states began bombing jihadists in Syria last year. Canada followed. In July, Turkey joined and allowed jets to use its strategically vital Incirlik air base. But</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turkey’s bombs fell heaviest on the Kurds, allies of the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sources: <span class="companylink">Columbia University</span> ,</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Syrian Observatory for Human Rights</span>, <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>, </p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Where is our Angela Merkel?</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Anne Summers - Anne Summers is the editor and publisher of Anne Summers Reports. @SummersAnne  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1043 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>38</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like the dozens of Austrians who waited to greet Syrian refugees at a Vienna railway station this week, there are many Australians who have rolled out the welcome mat to desperate new arrivals to this country from Vietnam and other countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like the Germans who started Refugees Welcome, dubbed an "<span class="companylink">AirBnB</span> for refugees", there are lots of Australians who in recent years have opened their houses to refugees from Africa, Kosovo, Iraq and elsewhere.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like those displayed at German football games last weekend, there are signs all around our major cities, saying "Refugees welcome".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We - or many of us - share the common values of decency and compassion with those Europeans who are standing up and offering practical help to the tidal wave of humanity that is descending on Europe in the largest mass movement of displaced persons since World War II.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What we don't share is a political leadership able and willing to grasp the human dimensions of this crisis, and with the political determination to do something about it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We don't have an Angela Merkel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We don't have a leader who will stand up and say to her citizens: This is how it is going to be.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are going to offer refuge to 800,000 people [equal to almost 1 per cent of the German population] and we are going to disregard the Dublin convention and allow refugees to come straight to Germany and apply for <b>asylum</b> (rather than have to apply in the country where they landed).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead our leaders blab on about bombing Syria (likely to cause more people to flee that beleaguered nation), or lecturing the Mediterranean countries about how they can turn back their boats - just as we turned back ours.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I can scarcely believe that our Foreign Affairs Minister, Julie Bishop, said on television last Sunday that European parliamentarians had been asking her "what Australia had done to protect our borders, what were Australia's policies, how had we managed to stop boats coming to Australia".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Was she really suggesting even a comparison, let alone a parallel, between the 18,365 people who, according to a report by the Parliamentary Library in Canberra, arrived in Australia by <b>boat</b> in 2012-13 and the more than 200,000 who are estimated to have got themselves to Europe in the past eight months?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And let's hope we don't hear any more unctuous invocations of our policies being motivated by wanting to prevent deaths by drowning. This political sleight, now used as justification for our excessively cruel <b>asylum</b>-seeker policies by both main parties, has been exposed as the sham it is by the horrifying number of drownings that have occurred off Europe in recent weeks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We don't like deaths at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Is this because we can't ignore the bodies of small boys washed up on Turkish beaches, whereas we can pretend we don't know about the bodies bombed or executed or starved to death on land?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian politicians like to blame refugees for putting themselves - and their children - in harm's way by getting on boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"You have to understand," the 26-year-old Kenyan-born Somali-British poet Warsan Shire, herself a <b>refugee</b> who has been in detention, has written, "that no one puts their children in a <b>boat</b> unless the water is safer than the land."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our major political parties refuse to engage with this reality. They do not have the courage or conviction to explain why people are fleeing and why we should help. They will not make the case. Instead they hide behind opinion polls that purport to "prove" a heartless, uncaring and - yes - racist Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I am not convinced by such polls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I have seen politicians challenge these attitudes. I observed Paul Keating slap down ALP branch members grumbling about the number of shops in his Bankstown electorate with "Chinese writing" on their windows.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 1970 foreign minister Andrew Peacock rejected the idea that the federal government policy on Vietnamese <b>boat</b> people should be influenced by public opinion. He said this on radio in Darwin - the very place where the boats were arriving.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These were politicians who led. They were not beholden to pollsters with their own agendas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2015 the German Chancellor is challenging her people to step up. She knows the risks, especially from the right-wing parties that have filled the vacuum created by Merkel persuading her own party, the Christian Democrats, to adopt more liberal immigration policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But she is not deterred.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Merkel is driven by Germany's continuing need to atone for the regime of Hitler that murdered millions and displaced millions more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 1985, when she was still a scientist working in East Germany, Merkel got hold of a speech by West German president Richard von Weizsacker, on the 40th anniversary of the end of WWII, in which he spoke with unprecedented honesty about Germany's responsibility for the Holocaust and declared the country's defeat a day of liberation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to a profile of Merkel published in The New Yorker in December 2014, she was profoundly influenced by his argument that in facing their past, Germans could redefine their identity and their future. In West Germany, the speech became a landmark document on the country's return to civilisation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now 30 years later, Angela Merkel is midway through her third term as Chancellor of a reunited Germany, has soaring personal popularity and, despite criticism of her handling of the Greek debt crisis, is Europe's dominant leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She is going to use every ounce of her authority to bind her own country but also to require the rest of Europe to open its borders and its hearts to the massive number of refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Will she succeed?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even if she falls short, she will have tried.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Which we can't say about our leaders who repel boats and keep <b>asylum</b> seekers in a state of hopelessness with indefinite offshore detention in barbarous conditions which, one day, we will have to atone for.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And, perhaps, in the process, produce our own Angela Merkel.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MARIA BILLIAS   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are witnessing the worst global <b>refugee</b> crisis in 70 years, and I am finding it incredibly hard to read the stories pouring out of Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not because of the obviously distressing pictures released this week of a child’s body washed ashore on a Turkish beach.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Or of a lone father carrying his sleeping daughter while he walks barefoot selling pens in the street to feed his family.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Or of the man gripping on to his toddler as he lands on the shores of Rhodes with a face that can only be described as having endured sheer hell.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But because of the shameful commentary that stories on refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers attract.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Every biting comment chips away at my soul and makes me more certain that humanity is becoming ... well, less humane.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I’ve been reluctant to write an opinion piece on something with such unrivalled complexity as it is not an issue easily summated in 800 words. But also because I have no energy or heart for the brutish comments that inevitably come.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Giving the ugly underbelly of the feeble and small minded a target for their vitriol is not something I particularly enjoy doing. The “oh well should have stayed in their own country”, “yeah it sucks but it shouldn’t be our problem to fix”or “we are full” comments make me genuinely question what has happened in the lives of ordinary Australians to make them lack basic compassion for fellow humans.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When did we become so desensitised to images of a dead three-year-old lying face down on a beach?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When did we become more fervent about “turning back the boats” than we were about tackling an even greater threat to this country – and that is two Australian women being killed by men every week?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These most recent images of little Aylan Kurdi – yes the toddler has a name – must serve as a reminder of how privileged every single one of us, through unjustifiable luck, was to be born in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While European immigration policies become more hardline with walls being built along borders and refugees being cut off from basic health care, our own federal politicians join in the chorus like monkeys screeching about border control “success”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott’s holy grail hardline policy to “turn back the boats” has clearly stopped refugees getting on a <b>boat</b> and trying to reach Australia by sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But as we have very plainly seen this week, it certainly hasn’t done anything to stop people dying at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The suffering is still occurring but it’s simply been eliminated from our peripheral.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I don’t for a second purport to making Australia a free-for-all for the people-smuggling syndicates preying on desperate people who are willing to risk their lives and hand over wads of cash to be dumped on foreign shores.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I don’t for a second suggest to having any answers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I do know, however, that our policymakers are bound – if not as part of the international community then at least by a thread of common decency – to adjust their <b>refugee</b> policies to deal with the human consequences of displaced populations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Federal Labor has already committed to doubling the annual intake of refugees by 2025 if elected. That’s a start. But even the most generous humanitarian intake means thousands of desperate people are being turned away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thousands of migrants have already died trying to cross the Mediterranean this year with the Greek holiday island of Lesbos – viewed by many Syrians who make it to Turkey as a stepping stone to Western Europe – seeing a massive influx.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite their own economic problems, the Greeks living here are doing their best to accommodate these people, while further north Iceland is seeing a massive surge in public and bipartisan support for a larger <b>asylum</b> seeker intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Germany is also preparing to take more than 800,000 migrants this year. Perhaps collectively as Australians we can start employing just an iota of some of these nations’ compassion and simply start by stopping the crass language we employ to dehumanise refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although it leaves you a little disheartened when Abbott himself comes out in response to these heart-rending photographs, to say ... “thankfully we have stopped the illegal boats”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So while we witness some of the saddest events occurring in the world today, the Abbott Government continues to offer up empty slogans. I think (and desperately hope) that we are all better than that.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Cameron changes his tune on refugees</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LONDON: Britain will accept thousands more Syrian <b>asylum</b> seekers in response to the migration crisis engulfing Europe, British Prime Minister David Cameron will announce in the coming days.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Officials are working on a "detailed package" to give <b>asylum</b> to Syrians under the "vulnerable persons relocation scheme", under which 216 people have been allowed to come to Britain so far.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It will be a change of direction by Mr Cameron, who on Wednesday insisted that Britain would not accept "more and more" migrants. Hours after he made those comments, images emerged of a three-year-old boy lying lifeless on a Turkish beach. Aylan Kurdi died when the <b>boat</b> carrying him and his family from Syria capsized.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Cameron spent much of Thursday in talks with his advisers discussing the public mood. <span class="companylink">Telegraph</span>, London</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>cnb joyce syria</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nick Butterly and Andrew Probyn   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>265 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia is poised to be part of a global effort to give safe haven to Syrian refugees as Europe finds itself in the grip of an extraordinary migration crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Weekend West understands the Federal Government is preparing to reconfigure its humanitarian intake to accommodate more Syrians.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia wants the United Nations to co-ordinate the response involving European nations and wealthy Gulf states, some of which have been refusing entry to Syrians without a visa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A senior source said Australia would have to be “realistic” about the number it took.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The shift came after frontbencher Barnaby Joyce broke ranks to argue Australia should take in more Syrian refugees, saying it was impossible not to be touched by the scenes in Europe. “As an accountant myself, when you see an accountant walking across the border into Hungary from Syria when his life has been destroyed, I feel a sense of empathy for him,” Mr Joyce said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“You would be less than human if you didn’t.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Joyce said he was in favour of Australia bringing in extra Syrian refugees provided it was done through “proper and legitimate channels”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We must do so through appropriate processes, otherwise you can see what happens when there are no controls on the border,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The world reacted with horror this week after photographs emerged of the body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi washed up on a beach in Turkey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aylan’s brother and mother also drowned when a <b>boat</b> carrying mostly Syrian <b>asylum</b> seekers overturned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WORLD P48</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>We’re kicking goals, says Abbott</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAVID CROWE, DAVID UREN   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>743 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Abbott has claimed “significant progress” in fixing Australia’s problems during his first two years as Prime Minister as he fights off doubts over his leadership and ­admits the need for stronger ­action to achieve the ambitions he outlined before taking power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Putting job creation and budget repair at the heart of his defence, Mr Abbott named the creation of 335,000 jobs as one of his biggest achievements and proof that his economic plan was working.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He told The Weekend Aus­tralian he would be “sticking to our plan” as he named border protection and small business tax cuts as two of the Coalition’s other major achievements.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the two years since Mr ­Abbott formed government, Australia has seen a rise in unemployment and a fall in economic growth, while the Prime Minister has slumped in the polls and fended off an attempt by Coalition MPs to force him from office.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jobs growth has jumped to 335,000 over the past two years compared with 251,000 in the preceding two years under Labor, leading Mr Abbott to claim a better record on jobs while attacking his predecessors for leaving the nation with chronic deficits.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Ever since the last election we have been rolling out our plan for a stronger economy and a stronger Australia,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Despite international uncertainty and volatility, Australia is making significant progress following six years of Labor chaos.” Bill Shorten said Mr ­Abbott’s response to the downing of <span class="companylink">Malaysian Airlines</span> Flight MH17 over Ukraine was the Prime Minister’s best achievement, but he attacked the rest of the Coalition record, including the spending cuts in last year’s budget. “No leader has ever campaigned more heavily on trust than Tony Abbott and no prime minister has broken more promises,” the Opposition Leader said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Each and every one of these breaches of faith has carried devastating consequences for our country — $80 billion cut from schools and hospitals, cuts to the pension, repeated attacks on Medicare.” Two years after the September 7 election that swept them to power, Coalition MPs are concerned about a dangerous slump in the opinion polls but defended their record by pointing to economic achievements, including trade deals with South Korea, Japan and China.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The results on border protection were also cited by Coalition MPs who argued that only one <b>boat</b> of <b>asylum</b>-seekers had ­arrived in two years, compared with 800 boats under the previous government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other outcomes being trumpeted include counter-terrorism laws, greater funding for national security agencies and an $89bn announcement in Adelaide for naval shipbuilding.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government’s first economic statement, in December 2013, warned of deficits worth $123bn over the subsequent four years, blaming Labor for the red ink and pledging action to fix it. This year’s budget showed the deficits for the same four years — to June 2017 — would be $150.5bn.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Deloitte Access Economics</span> partner Chris Richardson said the government came to office with the intention of placing budget repair at the centre of its first-term agenda, with reform initiatives, such as reworking the tax system and the structure of the federation, prepared for a second term.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“You’ve got to give them a lot of credit for trying a lot harder in budget repair than anyone has done in a decade,” he said. “The bigger reason why the budget has disappointed has been China rather than the Senate, but neither has done the budget any favours. The task of budget repair is still absolutely hostage to bipartisanship on the one hand and riding the China rollercoaster on the other.” Budget spending jumped in the last year of the Labor government from 24.1 per cent of GDP to 25.7 per cent. With softer than ­expected economic growth, spending has continued to rise, reaching 25.9 per cent of GDP in each of the government’s first two budgets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Measures such as abolishing the carbon tax while keeping the household compensation package and the small business tax cuts in this year’s budget have meant the net impact of government policy on the budget has been to add to the deficit. Budget estimates show new policies have cost $9.5bn more than savings measures over the four-year forward estimate ­period. Of this, $8.5bn was an ­injection of funds into the Reserve Bank’s capital.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EDITORIAL P23CHRIS KENNY P24</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Generous <b>refugee</b> scheme protected by firm borders</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>705 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Europe faces daunting task but Australia stands proud</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The lecturing by a so-called liberal (or leftist) newspaper in the US about Australia’s border security measures, parroting the partisan lines of the Greens and the factional Left of the ALP, is not only presumptuous and pathetic but plainly ignorant and wrong. Sanctimony and preachiness may come easy once you pass the security checks to gain access to the <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> offices but this nation on the other side of the globe has a proud record of putting its people, money and resources on the line to help the downtrodden, free the oppressed and welcome the needy. While others can parade their moral piety for social consumption — describing Australian policies as “ruthlessly effective” — a significant country such as ours focuses on getting things done. Australia leads the world on a per capita basis (third on raw numbers behind US and Canada) when it comes to the resettlement of refugees. At the same time, in recent years we have had defence personnel risking their lives in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Gulf, Sinai, Sudan, East Timor and Solomon Islands to protect the vulnerable and provide security. In most of these endeavours we have worked closely and respectfully with our US alliance partners.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On top of this, at the turn of the century Australia designed and implemented policies to eliminate rancorous and illegal people-smuggling operations that brought boatloads of <b>asylum</b>-seekers to our shores in a trade that risked lives, undermined our immigration system, created problems for our neighbours and prevented the intake of known refugees waiting in camps without the means to pay smugglers. After poor government decisions weakened these measures and reconstituted chaos, trauma and tragedy on our maritime borders, the current government — despite being told by its political opponents at home and abroad that it could not be done — again stopped this trade in human misery. Because that trade has been stopped, thousands of people have been released from immigration detention, 90 per cent of the children detained under Labor have been released and the number of offshore refugees resettled has risen to more than 5000 (13,500 including onshore) after falling below 500 when <b>boat</b> arrivals filled virtually all available places.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Confronted by a migration crisis, it is little wonder that European nations are seeking advice from Australia. We saw trauma and stopped it. Now the world is tormented by the photo of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi. He, like thousands more, drowned on a smuggling venture; the skipper abandoned an overloaded <b>boat</b>. This trade must never be encouraged. For borders to be meaningful, they must be secure, and for migration programs (economic or humanitarian) to be respected they must be orderly. So border control, self-evidently, is the only route to sustained immigration. The scale of the European-African-Middle Eastern crisis is daunting. And no meaningful solution can be found without restoring security in places such as Syria, northern Iraq and Libya, to prevent people fleeing and allow others to return. The <span class="companylink">New York Times</span>, of course, has been sceptical about military action against <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>, yet it seems certain that Europe should open its borders to anyone wanting a new life. Life can sometimes look easy from midtown Manhattan. The Europeans face tough choices, not just in tackling smugglers but in securing resolutions to nearby conflicts.It was not so long ago that refugees were fleeing Europe. Then, as now, Australia not only lost lives in providing the peace but offered a fresh start to the dispossessed. Any person or body that describes Australia’s actions as “unconscionable” only betrays a lack of knowledge and perspective. The NYT included a quote from the <span class="companylink">International Organisation for Migration</span>’s Leonard Doyle. “The Australian model may seem attractive to politicians,” he said. “Politicians love fences but what fences do is create a market for smugglers and major humanitarian problems.” He is wrong. Australia has shut down an odious trade, protecting a generous immigration scheme with a world’s best humanitarian quota. It would be a great pity and sure route to tragedy if, once again, activists convinced a future government to weaken our regime.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Drowned toddler a call to action: PM</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JARED OWENS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>451 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The “very sad and poignant” image of a drowned Syrian toddler washed up on a Turkish beach has reinforced Tony Abbott’s conviction that tough policies are needed to prevent further “harrowing” deaths of <b>asylum</b>-seekers at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet while some European leaders are eager to learn from Operation Sovereign Borders, The <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> has savaged Aus­tralia’s policies as “brutal” and ­“unconscionable”.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister said: “It was an absolutely heart-rending photograph — an absolutely heart-rending photograph — and I don’t think any parent could see that photograph without being devastated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We had, as you might remember, the harrowing business of ­people dying on the rocks of Christmas Island just a few years ago as part of that evil people-smuggling trade and thank God we’ve stopped it.” The <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> — the US’s third most read newspaper — urged Europe to reject adopting Australia’s policies, which it deemed “inhumane, of dubious ­legality and strikingly at odds with the country’s tradition of welcoming people fleeing persecution and war”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The newspaper, citing this week’s damning Senate report, described Nauru’s <b>refugee</b> pro­cessing centre as a “purgatory where children are sexually ­abused, guards give detainees marijuana in exchange for sex and some <b>asylum</b>-seekers are so desperate that they stitch their lips shut in an act of protest”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Instead of stopping the abuses, the Australian government has sought to hide them from the world. It is inexcusable that some find themselves today in situations that are more hopeless and degrading than the ones that prompted them to flee.” Bill Shorten said the sickening and “heartbreaking” image of the toddler should remind MPs to aim for a “smarter, cleverer and more compassionate” approach that would take more refugees “through the front door”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We’ve got to deter the criminals who would exploit vulnerable people desperately seeking refuge in another country and we need to stop the drownings at sea,” the ­Opposition Leader said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“By the same token, that’s why Labor also believes that over time we should take more refugees.” Immigration Minister Peter Dutton last night hit back at the American newspaper, saying Australia’s policies were “lawful, they are safe, and they work”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“On 15 December, 2010, Australians watched horrified as a flimsy wooden <b>boat</b> was repeatedly slammed into the cliffs of Christmas Island by heavy seas. Fifty of the 89 people on board — men, women and children — perished that day, despite courageous rescue efforts,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“What Australians and the world did not see were the hundreds of others who were dying while trying to reach Australia in unseaworthy boats.”EDITORIAL P23</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Michael Gordon   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>427 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A001</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Michael Gordon</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MP makes heartfelt plea to lift <b>refugee</b> intake</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Craig Laundy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Coalition MP has made an impassioned plea to the Abbott government to consider taking more refugees from Syria in response to the growing humanitarian crisis in Europe.Craig Laundy made the call to Julie Bishop and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton after being shown by his 16-year-old daughter the harrowing picture of a young boy whose body had washed up on a beach in Turkey. "Can we please do more?" the MP from western Sydney asked Ms Bishop on Friday morning. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said an increased intake was "under consideration", although Tony Abbott suggested a further increase was unlikely. The Abbott government is being</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">urged to take an extra 20,000 Syrian refugees to demonstrate Australian compassion in response to the largest movement of people since the Second World War. Global aid agencies have backed a call by the Greens to approve the temporary increase, grant <b>asylum</b> to Syrian refugees already in Australia or in offshore detention and make an emergency contribution to the <span class="companylink">United Nations <b>refugee</b> agency</span>. Several government MPs, including Mr Laundy, Barnaby Joyce and Russell Broadbent, are supporting an increase in the intake as well as a skewing of the existing intake toward</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Syrian refugees. <span class="companylink">World Vision</span>'s Tim Costello has urged the government to take more refugees as it moves to approve bombing of <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> targets in Syria. The <span class="companylink"><b>Refugee</b> Council of Australia</span> is backing the call for an increased intake, saying Australia has contributed to the flow of desperate people by "closing our borders in the way that we have". "Australia has a responsibility, capacity and the resources to be able</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">to scale up our <b>refugee</b> intake generally but the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Syria provides additional urgent impetus for us to act," said the council's chief executive, Paul Power. While Ms Bishop said Australia would play its part and that "this matter is under review by the Minister of Immigration", Mr Abbott suggested no further increase was being contemplated. Mr Abbott said Australia had already agreed to take an extra 4400 refugees from Syria and Iraq, saying the success of its actions to stop <b>boat</b> arrivals had made this possible. Mr Laundy, a father of three, said that after seeing the photograph of the dead child "we broke down as a family around the dinner table thinking, 'There but for the grace of god go any of us"'.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gdev : Development/Humanitarian Aid | npag : Page-One Stories | gcat : Political/General News | gdip : International Relations | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>syria : Syria | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | meastz : Middle East | medz : Mediterranean | wasiaz : Western Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020150904eb950003s</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020150904eb950001l" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Border Force boss has a Fawlty moment</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3201 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>B001</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Border Force boss has a Fawlty moment</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Continued Page 2</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'No answer Quaedvlieg gave cleared up a single question.'</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">W hen Roman Quaedvlieg was with the AFP, he took the lead role in buying Tasers for ACT Police. Faced with a choice of buying Tasers with or without video- recording devices, he unhesitatingly chose ones that did not. It was only after sustained public criticism that he decided the next tranche of Tasers would include video. Quaedvlieg is now the Commissioner of the paramilitary Australia Border Force, one with still largely undefined functions of saving us from drug smugglers, people smugglers, international prostitution and pornography, functions once performed ably with a fraction of the resources this newly defined national security function now requires. And without guns or black uniforms of the Hugo Boss style. He gave us, on Friday a week ago, the extraordinarily dissembling but hilarious and immortal collection of denials, obfuscations and blame- shiftings over planned ABF involvement in a Melbourne police operation. Press statements issued by the ABF had implied that armed Border Force members in full black Hugo Boss-style regalia would be randomly stopping people in the street, asking them to produce evidence of their right to be in the country. Naturally, people with nothing to hide had nothing to fear. According to Quaedvlieg, the public impression was all a mistake, a misunderstanding, a misinterpretation, perhaps a mischievous one induced by the media jihad of which Quaedvlieg's minister, a former police colleague, has recently spoken, after it was safe to rise above the parapet. The ABF media statement had, it seems, been issued by a low-level person, a person with one pip fewer than Quaedvlieg, according to Mr Loyalty, Buck Stops Here. It was the media's fault. Or social media's fault. Or that of advocates or activists. The statement had not been cleared at higher levels. No, the minister's office had not been told. Nor, at least by implication, had Quaedvlieg or his gung-ho boss, Mike Pezzullo, been in the loop. Nor would they, or could they, have imagined such a thing. No answer Quaedvlieg gave cleared up a single question. But the assertion of fact detectable in the babble, as well as his spin, were less than reliable. He mostly looked like a witness at a royal commission being invited to listen to a tape recording. It turned out, for example, that the minister's office had twice been sent copies of the media statement. We have only its word that it had not been studied there. Given a general pattern of micromanagement of <b>refugee</b>, border security and national security stunts, I do not believe it. Deniability is built into the plan. Even after, or perhaps because of, Quaedvlieg's "clarifications", ministers, from the Prime Minister down, were contemplating a fresh public relations disaster for the government. Like so many recent disasters (and like the Gillard government's) it was an own goal. It tended to confirm a general impression of dysfunction, idiocy and incompetence in everything done by the Abbott government. It was aggravated by persisting in denial of the obvious and attempts to shift blame. It was not an "insider" disaster. Ordinary voters as much as the twittering classes dislike officious cops and pseudo-cops. It invited questions going to the very heart of the national security anxiety being willfully, and falsely, instilled by the government. The reluctant conscripts inside the new "force" shrivelled in embarrassment at the incompetence of its leadership. Folk of the conservative right, even ones given to believing in a bit of authoritarian high-handedness with folk who don't</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Border Force boss Quaedvlieg has a Fawlty moment</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From Page 1</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">matter much, were appalled at the idea of people in camp uniforms demanding passes from citizens on the public byways. Quaedvlieg's boss, departmental secretary Michael Pezzullo, so often to be found advocating a new "security paradigm" by which tough and in-your-face border security is a linchpin of the modern state, was, for once, out of sight. He was not, apparently, accepting responsibility either. If it had not already been apparent in the new department of Immigration and Border Security that absolute loyalty, discipline and responsibility were exclusively processes going upwards, it was now. The buck goes downwards. It's always someone else's fault. If only to underline the point, Quaedvlieg announced an inquiry. The prospect of its blaming him or Pezzullo must be rated as low as of the organisation's culture of accountability being enhanced by the report. Heads will roll but only to remind everyone of the need for obedience. Apart from Friday's fiasco, their taste in and for uniforms and guns, and their affection for a command culture, Pezzullo and Quaedvlieg cannot be accused of being mere hacks for the coalition. They may have, at least until Friday, delighted ministers, but they are but there to serve. Any minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pezzullo, after all, was a former Labor staffer who worked with Gareth Evans when Minister for Foreign Affairs, and, later, for Kim Beazley, when Leader of the Opposition. In those days Labor, seeking some harmless, but "strong"-sounding post-2011 point of difference with John Howard on <b>refugee</b> issues announced it would set up a Coastguard, later called a Border Force, to save Australian sovereignty from the diabolical threat of poor people fleeing oppression. (At that stage it was not to save such people from themselves, by drowning, as we now pretend; it was simply, as it always has really been, to stop them coming at all.) The coastguard idea, which fell considerably short of being the private army now established, was strongly pooh-poohed by the Howard government, both as likely to produce more, not less, duplication of activity and financial waste, and to make controlling the borders more difficult. It has yet to be established that this judgment was wrong, or has been rendered redundant by extending the idea into a bigger organisation, more military and much more secretive in style. Rudd and Gillard did not implement the policy. After Beazley's downfall, Pezzullo returned to Defence as a deputy secretary. Then to Customs. He was a big winner, under Scott Morrison, with the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">implementation of the secretive "stop-the- boats" strategy. Morrison, more than most ministers, is entirely correct in his dealings with public servants but has a pronounced appetite for people with big ideas capable of advancing his primary agenda - him. It is, essentially, to Pezzullo's advocacy that we owe the idea of an ABF and linkage of customs and immigration functions. It is due to his infighting skills that Customs swallowed Immigration. The new department, now post-Morrison, is built in Pezzullo's image. Many old immigration hands decided, or were encouraged, to abandon ship. Most warm and cuddly departmental functions, focused on resettlement, migrant assistance and multiculturalism, were exiled to social agencies (ironically now mostly to Morrison) or junked. It is trying to build a new culture but it is clear that it will be one even more toxic than the old. Pezzullo, famously, is not known for encouraging argument, debate, or thinking out of the square. All independent thinking, if any, is done by him. His own intellectual tendencies, as can be observed by reading his laborious if philosophical speeches, are narrow, something disguised by his verbal aggression. There had been little enough imagination, in the department before but even by comparison new immigration</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">culture will never be called multicultural or open-minded. Pezzullo wants, ultimately, to head Defence. Morrison, at one stage, wanted to be Minister of Defence. Leaks emerged suggesting that Morrison would be the ideal person to save us from the then minister, the hapless David Johnson. Alternatively, it was suggested, border control activities might be - should be - put in a new super- duper Defence organisation having a lot more focus on impermeable borders. That the Navy was working on border matters to Morrison and that Defence was, unwillingly, giving political cover to claims of a blanket need for secrecy about "on- water" activities meant there was a considerable overlap anyway. But other ministers, and departments, plainly resented the empire building, and nothing came of it. Pezzullo has always been a responsive can-do public servant, anxious, as all public servants are, to help make government policies succeed. Recently he has become an open advocate for the policies themselves. He has observed that both Labor and the coalition agree on almost all of the policies of stopping boats, detaining <b>boat</b> people, placing them in overseas concentration camps, being generally indifferent to their welfare, and avoiding, or offloading, as much external scrutiny as</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">possible. (That's not quite as he would characterise it, but it is what it means). That perhaps a quarter of the population, including prominent church leaders, think differently is hardly relevant, except perhaps as evidence of their stupidity. There has been recent talk in the senior councils of government of Pezzullo being detached to perform some special national security for Abbott. Finance head Jane Halton, would if the idea progresses, hold the fort at Immigration. Just what this assignment is and whether it fits in with Abbott's request from national security agencies for an "announceable" a week on national security crises is not clear. But it may explain why Pezzullo has been mysteriously absent during all of the period of intense scrutiny of his Border Force project ï¿½ one Pezzullo has (amazingly) compared, for breadth, vision and genius with the 1970s Tange Defence reforms. Quaedvlieg is a modern policeman of the type now routinely making it to the top. It's a long time since he did crime fighting. For him it's patronage, position papers, briefing notes, budgets and rosters. He is, first, an ambitious, reasonably able bureaucrat and paper-shuffler, skilled in attending to, even anticipating, the needs of bosses, including politicians. He has trodden the management path, if without much in the way of traces, apart from entries on a</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">curriculum vitae. He has been, almost invariably as a manager, in all of the high- status or fashionable police operational units, including in the Queensland Police, the <span class="companylink">Australian Crime Commission</span> and the AFP. Despite this it is hard to associate him with solving any crime, a fresh approach to social problems, or lasting change in any unit he controlled. A colleague once told me he had never known anyone, in any organisation, so ambitious. But he has been careful, until now, about the spotlight. He is agreeable enough but does not give good, or memorable speeches. His fate, probably, is that people will be replaying last week's press conference as a Fawlty Towers quality how-not-to-do-it exercise, long after we are all dead. The Border Force Fiasco is much more than last Friday. It can be seen through a thousand prisms. As a study of leadership, accountability and responsibility. As yet another example of the Abbott government's haplessness, hopelessness and current incapacity to win a trick. About whether it is actually smart to stir up public anxieties about aliens, strangers and terrorists. About whether the ABF contains the sort of people to whom we ought to give guns, and, implicitly, the right to use them. About whether it has the checks and balances necessary whenever people are vested with power over the lives of others.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">matter much, were appalled at the idea of people in camp uniforms demanding passes from citizens on the public byways. Quaedvlieg's boss, departmental secretary Michael Pezzullo, so often to be found advocating a new "security paradigm" by which tough and in-your-face border security is a linchpin of the modern state, was, for once, out of sight. He was not, apparently, accepting responsibility either. If it had not already been apparent in the new department of Immigration and Border Security that absolute loyalty, discipline and responsibility were exclusively processes going upwards, it was now. The buck goes downwards. It's always someone else's fault. If only to underline the point, Quaedvlieg announced an inquiry. The prospect of its blaming him or Pezzullo must be rated as low as of the organisation's culture of accountability being enhanced by the report. Heads will roll but only to remind everyone of the need for obedience. Apart from Friday's fiasco, their taste in and for uniforms and guns, and their affection for a command culture, Pezzullo and Quaedvlieg cannot be accused of being mere hacks for the coalition. They may have, at least until Friday, delighted ministers, but they are but there to serve. Any minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pezzullo, after all, was a former Labor staffer who worked with Gareth Evans when Minister for Foreign Affairs, and, later, for Kim Beazley, when Leader of the Opposition. In those days Labor, seeking some harmless, but "strong"-sounding post-2011 point of difference with John Howard on <b>refugee</b> issues announced it would set up a Coastguard, later called a Border Force, to save Australian sovereignty from the diabolical threat of poor people fleeing oppression. (At that stage it was not to save such people from themselves, by drowning, as we now pretend; it was simply, as it always has really been, to stop them coming at all.) The coastguard idea, which fell considerably short of being the private army now established, was strongly pooh-poohed by the Howard government, both as likely to produce more, not less, duplication of activity and financial waste, and to make controlling the borders more difficult. It has yet to be established that this judgment was wrong, or has been rendered redundant by extending the idea into a bigger organisation, more military and much more secretive in style. Rudd and Gillard did not implement the policy. After Beazley's downfall, Pezzullo returned to Defence as a deputy secretary. Then to Customs. He was a big winner, under Scott Morrison, with the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">implementation of the secretive "stop-the- boats" strategy. Morrison, more than most ministers, is entirely correct in his dealings with public servants but has a pronounced appetite for people with big ideas capable of advancing his primary agenda - him. It is, essentially, to Pezzullo's advocacy that we owe the idea of an ABF and linkage of customs and immigration functions. It is due to his infighting skills that Customs swallowed Immigration. The new department, now post-Morrison, is built in Pezzullo's image. Many old immigration hands decided, or were encouraged, to abandon ship. Most warm and cuddly departmental functions, focused on resettlement, migrant assistance and multiculturalism, were exiled to social agencies (ironically now mostly to Morrison) or junked. It is trying to build a new culture but it is clear that it will be one even more toxic than the old. Pezzullo, famously, is not known for encouraging argument, debate, or thinking out of the square. All independent thinking, if any, is done by him. His own intellectual tendencies, as can be observed by reading his laborious if philosophical speeches, are narrow, something disguised by his verbal aggression. There had been little enough imagination, in the department before but even by comparison new immigration</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">culture will never be called multicultural or open-minded. Pezzullo wants, ultimately, to head Defence. Morrison, at one stage, wanted to be Minister of Defence. Leaks emerged suggesting that Morrison would be the ideal person to save us from the then minister, the hapless David Johnson. Alternatively, it was suggested, border control activities might be - should be - put in a new super- duper Defence organisation having a lot more focus on impermeable borders. That the Navy was working on border matters to Morrison and that Defence was, unwillingly, giving political cover to claims of a blanket need for secrecy about "on- water" activities meant there was a considerable overlap anyway. But other ministers, and departments, plainly resented the empire building, and nothing came of it. Pezzullo has always been a responsive can-do public servant, anxious, as all public servants are, to help make government policies succeed. Recently he has become an open advocate for the policies themselves. He has observed that both Labor and the coalition agree on almost all of the policies of stopping boats, detaining <b>boat</b> people, placing them in overseas concentration camps, being generally indifferent to their welfare, and avoiding, or offloading, as much external scrutiny as</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">possible. (That's not quite as he would characterise it, but it is what it means). That perhaps a quarter of the population, including prominent church leaders, think differently is hardly relevant, except perhaps as evidence of their stupidity. There has been recent talk in the senior councils of government of Pezzullo being detached to perform some special national security for Abbott. Finance head Jane Halton, would if the idea progresses, hold the fort at Immigration. Just what this assignment is and whether it fits in with Abbott's request from national security agencies for an "announceable" a week on national security crises is not clear. But it may explain why Pezzullo has been mysteriously absent during all of the period of intense scrutiny of his Border Force project ï¿½ one Pezzullo has (amazingly) compared, for breadth, vision and genius with the 1970s Tange Defence reforms. Quaedvlieg is a modern policeman of the type now routinely making it to the top. It's a long time since he did crime fighting. For him it's patronage, position papers, briefing notes, budgets and rosters. He is, first, an ambitious, reasonably able bureaucrat and paper-shuffler, skilled in attending to, even anticipating, the needs of bosses, including politicians. He has trodden the management path, if without much in the way of traces, apart from entries on a</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">curriculum vitae. He has been, almost invariably as a manager, in all of the high- status or fashionable police operational units, including in the Queensland Police, the <span class="companylink">Australian Crime Commission</span> and the AFP. Despite this it is hard to associate him with solving any crime, a fresh approach to social problems, or lasting change in any unit he controlled. A colleague once told me he had never known anyone, in any organisation, so ambitious. But he has been careful, until now, about the spotlight. He is agreeable enough but does not give good, or memorable speeches. His fate, probably, is that people will be replaying last week's press conference as a Fawlty Towers quality how-not-to-do-it exercise, long after we are all dead. The Border Force Fiasco is much more than last Friday. It can be seen through a thousand prisms. As a study of leadership, accountability and responsibility. As yet another example of the Abbott government's haplessness, hopelessness and current incapacity to win a trick. About whether it is actually smart to stir up public anxieties about aliens, strangers and terrorists. About whether the ABF contains the sort of people to whom we ought to give guns, and, implicitly, the right to use them. About whether it has the checks and balances necessary whenever people are vested with power over the lives of others.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>acrime : Australian Crime Commission</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020150904eb950001l</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020150904eb9500035" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>New York Times misses the <b>boat</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Mark Kenny   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>430 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>REFUGEE</b> CRISIS - Comment</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> has urged European leaders not to adopt the heartless Australian model of denying desperate <b>asylum</b> seekers entry via the maritime route.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Well-intentioned as it no doubt was, its editorial has added to the already overflowing stock of moral outrage surrounding the humanitarian disaster of displaced persons, but has contributed nothing to the urgent question of what should be done about it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As for the Australian lesson, the premise of the editorial advice is wrong anyway.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's intake of Syrian refugees has been increased since the civil war intensified with an additional 4400 settled here, according to Canberra. And Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says an increase on that number is now under active consideration. As it should be.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What was meant by the term "ruthlessly effective" is unclear, beyond its obviously menacing tone. In any event, the phrase concedes that the Abbott policy has in fact been effective in stopping deaths at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yes the Abbott government's policy has stopped <b>asylum</b> seekers from making it to Australia's shores, but the more important point is that it has stopped deaths at sea by preventing people from trying.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Plus, it has decimated a cruel commerce in human souls - a cynical trade in which a fatality rate is simply deemed accepted. In the end, a country's "heart" or lack thereof, should be measured by how many people it helps and tries to help. Not by how many people it allows to die while expressing regret.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another missing element from the broadsheet's argument was an acknowledgement that the terrible images which have personalised the human calamity unfolding in the Middle-East and Northern Africa - photographs revealing a drowned Syrian three- year-old - are precisely the class of tragedy Australia's "inhumane" policy has ended.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is ironic then that such heart-rending images from the shores of the Mediterranean are being used by some to criticise Australia's maritime security policies, even though they have stopped such deaths.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Where The <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> is correct, however, is in condemning the undemocratic secrecy associated with the incarceration of <b>asylum</b> seekers languishing in Nauru and PNG. Ditto for its reference to the moral ambiguities - first reported by <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> - of paying people smugglers to return to port.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Demonising Canberra over these aspects and for the divisive border rhetoric in which they are cloaked, is justified, but only if the most fundamental moral imperative of preventing deaths at sea is also recognised.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nyt : The New York Times Co</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>IN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>i475 : Printing/Publishing | i4751 : Newspaper Publishing | imed : Media/Entertainment | ipubl : Publishing</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | usa : United States | usny : New York State | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | namz : North America | use : Northeast U.S.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020150904eb9500035</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ADVTSR0020150903eb940000q" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>TRAGIC IMAGE THAT STUNNED THE WORLD</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>346 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 September 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A LIFELESS toddler is carried across a resort beach by a Turkish guard, his tiny body a heart-rending symbol of the human cost of Europe’s <b>refugee</b> crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Further along the shore, the grim-faced officer retrieves another body, that of the toddler’s five-year-old brother, from the water’s edge.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The pair were washed ashore after their parents’ desperate gamble on reaching the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> failed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The images, some showing the brothers lying face down on the beach at Bodrum, immediately became a symbol of the migrants’ tragedy as they were shared across the world on social media, and then the front of major newspapers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At least 13 people drowned when two dinghies carrying refugees from Syria capsized in the Mediterranean, where more than 2500 migrants have perished this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The brothers, named locally as three-year-old Aylan Kurdi and his brother Galip, were on an overcrowded <b>boat</b> which sank just 30 minutes into the 21km journey from Bodrum to the Greek island of Kos.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Neither boy was wearing a lifejacket and their Syrian Kurdish parents could not save them. Their mother also died.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The boys’ bodies, still clad in bright T-shirts and shorts, were washed on to the beach at the tourist resort of Bodrum, where grim-faced ­police carried them ashore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b> was one of a dozen dinghies attempting the crossing. A second sank minutes later, killing a second pair of young brothers, aged 9 and 11.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A survivor from one of the boats, Omer Mohsin, said 175 people had been crammed on to 12 boats after paying $3200 each to people traffickers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The crowded <b>boat</b> sank almost as soon as we reached the open water, but it was pitch black. The non-swimmers didn’t stand a chance,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, at least 13 people drowned when a wooden <b>boat</b>, believed to have been carrying about 70 Indonesian <b>asylum</b> seekers, sank in the Malacca Strait, off Malaysia.The vessel went down in choppy waters off Malaysia’s western coast.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>After four refugees, Cambodia calls time</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Lindsay Murdoch South-East Asia Correspondent  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>448 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>31 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's $55 million operation to resettle hundreds of refugees from the tiny Pacific island of Nauru to Cambodia appears to have collapsed in a diplomatic embarrassment for the Abbott Government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A senior Cambodian official says the impoverished nation has no plans to receive any more than four refugees who arrived in Phnom Penh in June, and indicated it did not want any.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We don't have any plans to import more refugees from Nauru to Cambodia," Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak told the Cambodia Daily. "I think the less we receive the better."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under a controversial agreement with Australia, the Cambodian regime has the right to decide how many refugees are resettled from Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The regime will pocket an additional $40 million in aid from Australian taxpayers, no matter how many arrive in the country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Additional operational costs, including providing health and education training for the first arrivals, has already topped a staggering $15 million, a Senate committee in Canberra has been told.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott government has a policy not to comment publicly on the Cambodian operation that has been condemned by Cambodian opposition parties, human rights and <b>refugee</b> advocate groups.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first group of an Iranian couple, Iranian man and Rohingya man from Myanmar have been living in an Australian-funded luxury villa in a Phnom Penh suburb since they were on June 4 whisked through Phnom Penh airport to one of the world's poorest nations, where about 18 per cent of the country's 15 million people survive on less than $1.22 a day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Khieu Sopheak told the Cambodia Daily the four were "enjoying their life" in Cambodia. But they have not spoken publicly since arrival, shielded by officials from the <span class="companylink">International Organisation for Migration</span> which received an undisclosed amount of money from Australia for taking care of the group.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The four are receiving benefits millions of Cambodians can only dream about, including their own "case manager", accommodation, training, help finding work, language tuition and health insurance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some had their applications for <b>refugee</b> status fast-tracked when they agreed to take a one-way flight to Cambodia. But <b>refugee</b> advocates say attempts to convince hundreds more refugees on Nauru to take up the offer failed to obtain any more applicants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokesman for Immigration minister Peter Dutton said the government has been clear that people who have arrive illegally by <b>boat</b> will not be settled in Australia. "The Government continues to work with Cambodia and other partners, including source countries, to facilitate the return or placement of people on Nauru and Manus Island," he said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Adam Lo Adam Lo started volunteering when he was still at school, doing everything from door knocking and fundraising to community broadcasting on Radio 4EB FM, where he has served as a youth representative, group convener and board director. He also served several years in the Youth Committee and as the National Youth chairman for the National Ethnic Multicultural Broadcaster’s Council. Now an occupational therapist specialising in mental health, he is involved in Occupational Therapy Australia Queensland Division while also a reservist officer with the RAAF. He has served as a junior vice-president at the Sunnybank branch of the Returned and Service’s League and is a member of the Australians of Chinese Heritage War Memorial.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aquilar Luki For Aquilar Luki, education is the way to achieve a better lifestyle, and the father of six has made it his mission to encourage other Pacific Islanders to stay in school. Born on Niue and living in Australia since 1986, Aquilar was the first of his family to graduate from university and he has used his connections to break down cultural barriers to participation in education by establishing the Home Connectedness Program. As a result of his work, attendance rates at Woree State High School for Pacific Islander students have increased and absenteeism decreased. The program has been extended to Woree Primary School and Bentley Park College.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Cuong Bui Dr Cuong Bui was a doctor in the Vietnamese army before the war forced him to flee to Australia as one of the original <b>boat</b> people in 1975. After sitting for Australian exams, he worked as a doctor at Brisbane’s Royal Women and Royal Children’s hospitals and opened a GP practice in Mt Gravatt in Brisbane’s south where he still practices. He also has been a member of the Federal Government’s Australian <b>Refugee</b> Advisory Council for Refugees; the Queensland Migrant Settlement Council of <b>Boat</b> People and on the Australian Aboriginal Reconciliation Council of Queensland.He was the founder of the Queensland Multicultural Council and many Vietnamese professional associations.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Australian nurse saves lives on rescue ship</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Ruth Pollard   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>624 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ruth Pollard was on board the Phoenix when it was involved in the rescue of 400 refugees off the coast of Libya.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On-board the MY Phoenix, a voice crackles over the radio: "There are at least 30 deceased below deck."</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">Swedish Coast Guard</span> ship, Poseidon, looms large ahead of us, an old wooden fishing <b>boat</b> strapped to its side, hundreds of people squeezed together on top, dozens of corpses trapped underneath.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the bridge of the Phoenix, <span class="companylink">Medecins Sans Frontieres</span> (<span class="companylink">MSF</span>) medical team leader Carol Nagy, an Australian, is working two radios. On one she is listening to a briefing from an <span class="companylink">MSF</span> doctor who has just rushed in an inflatable from the Phoenix to the Poseidon to provide medical support to the refugees. On the other, she is in touch with the Italian navy authorities, co-ordinating the medical evacuation of a dangerously ill man from the <b>refugee boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By the end of the day, the Poseidon had left the search and rescue zone off the coast of Libya with more than 500 refugees on board, the death toll had been revised up to 52, and another 415 refugees had been rescued from a second wooden fishing <b>boat</b> to the safety of the Phoenix.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are six <span class="companylink">MSF</span> staff on the Phoenix, including a doctor and two nurses, to provide medical care to the hundreds rescued in their latest mission. They support the search and rescue team from the Migrant Offshore Aid Station, the newly formed NGO that runs the Phoenix's operations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Back in Australia, Ms Nagy, 57, is a nurse in the critical care unit at <span class="companylink">Calvary Hospital</span> in Hobart, dividing her time between local healthcare and her humanitarian work with <span class="companylink">MSF</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is her third run on the Phoenix which, since it started its operations in August 2014, has participated in the rescue of more than 10,000 refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Generally people get on the <b>boat</b> in Libya at 2 or 3am ... by the time we get them it is nearly two days since they have had something proper to eat and drink," she says in the ship's small, well-equipped clinic after treating two young children from Bangladesh.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It is a very taxing time for these people, [they need] to regroup after their traumatic experience on the sea," Ms Nagy says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They arrive exhausted, dehydrated, scared and disoriented.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Usually the guys have had some kind of trauma during their stay in Libya. They might have lacerations - we see people with gunshot wounds, we see people who have sustained fractures after being beaten, particularly with iron bars ... more and more we see people sustaining chemical burns from the fuel mixing with the water at the bottom of the boats that soaks their clothing."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Nagy's work with <span class="companylink">MSF</span> has taken her to some of the world's most troubled regions, from the enormous Dadaab <b>Refugee</b> Camp on the Kenya-Somalia border, to Gaza, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Cambodia, Armenia and, most recently, east Ukraine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The scale of the movement of people from all over the world - from Syria and Iraq to Sudan, Nigeria - is an indication of the desperate situation they face at home, Ms Nagy says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 300,000 refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean in 2015, while 2500 have died, the <span class="companylink">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</span> reported on Friday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The impact of what we have seen over the last couple of days really brings home how unpredictable and dangerous this crossing is," Ms Nagy says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"People know this, but they are still willing to take that risk because they feel they do not have any other option."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Leaders shaken over grisly migrant deaths</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By KARIN STROHECKER   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>647 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>35</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PARNDORF: As dozens of corpses were found in a parked truck in Austria, and another migrant <b>boat</b> sank off Libya, the crisis that is overwhelming Europe deepened and threw up new tragedies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The abandoned refrigerated truck was found by an Austrian motorway patrol near the Hungarian border on Thursday, with fluids from decomposing bodies seeping from its back door.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"One can maybe assume that the deaths occurred 1½ to two days ago," Hans Peter Doskozil, police chief in the province of Burgenland, told a news conference, adding that "many things" indicated the migrants were already dead when the truck crossed the border. They suspected those responsible were already out of the country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police originally estimated there were more than 20 or as many as 50 bodies in the truck. On Friday, the <span class="companylink">Hungarian Interior Ministry</span> confirmed the truck contained more than 70 corpses.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a summit on the west Balkans in Vienna: "We are, of course, all shaken by the appalling news. This reminds us that we must tackle quickly the issue of immigration and in a European spirit - that means in a spirit of solidarity - and find solutions."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An official in Zuwara, Libya, said several hundred people had been on board a <b>boat</b> that sank off the coast on Thursday. Some appeared to have been trapped in the hold when it capsized.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Some 100 illegal migrants have survived," the official said, adding that rescue operations were continuing. Those on board had been from sub-Saharan Africa, Pakistan, Syria, Morocco and Bangladesh.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Before the latest incidents, the <span class="companylink">International Organisation for Migration</span> estimated 2373 people had died so far this year while trying to reach Europe by sea, and 3573 in the past 12 months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Thursday, the Swedish coastguard ship Poseidon arrived at the port of Palermo on the Italian island of Sicily with 52 corpses found on a <b>boat</b> off the coast of Libya on Wednesday. Most of the victims had been trapped in the hold and died of asphyxiation, according to survivors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Poseidon disembarked 471 migrants who were among the more than 3000 rescued by ships on Wednesday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There are thousands and thousands of dead lying in the Mediterranean whose bodies will never be found, and no one is paying attention," Palermo mayor Leoluca Orlando said. Hundreds of thousands, many fleeing war in countries such as Syria and Libya, have made it into the <span class="companylink">European Union</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Germany alone expects 800,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers this year; Hungary is building a barbed wire fence along its border with Serbia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Investigations were launched in Austria and Hungary after the bodies in the truck, with Hungarian number plates, were discovered.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Burgenland police spokesman Helmut Marban said a patrol spotted the truck and at first thought it was damaged or had been in an accident.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"When they checked, they found it had no driver and blood was dripping out of the vehicle and there was a smell of dead bodies," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Janos Lazar, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff, said a Romanian citizen had registered the number plate in Kecskemet, Hungary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The truck was towed to the Austrian village of Nickelsdorf, close to the Hungarian border, where workers wheeled body bags into a building.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gerald Tatzgern, head of the Austrian police unit in charge of fighting human trafficking, told Austrian broadcaster ORF: "I see a good chance that we can catch the perpetrators."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann told the summit: "The refugees who died today wanted to save their own lives by fleeing, but instead lost their lives at the hands of traffickers."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">European Union</span> foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said she hoped the tragedy would push member states to "take decisions and responsibility".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">European Commissioner Johannes Hahn said Brussels would propose sharing responsibility between countries.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>439 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Weekend</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1 SELP-HELF MIRANDA SINGS <span class="companylink">SIMON & SCHUSTER</span>, RRP $30 US comedian Colleen Ballinger Evans created the talentless and egotistical character Miranda Sings in 2008 and has amassed 4.8 million subscribers on <span class="companylink">YouTube</span>. She dishes out advice on boyfriends, bullies and beauty in this self-help spoof.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2 DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE HOLLY MADISON HARPERCOLLINS, RRP $30 Former playmate Holly Madison details years of abuse, manipulation and drug use in her tell-all memoir about life inside the Playboy Mansion.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">3 HOLDING THE MAN TIMOTHY CONIGRAVE PENGUIN, RRP $23 This is the film tie-in edition of the 1995 memoir by Australian writer, actor and activist Timothy Conigrave, about growing up gay in the 1970s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">4 HELLO LIFE!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MARCUS BUTLER HACHETTE, RRP $33 Another <span class="companylink">YouTube</span> personality showing the impact of social media on the publishing industry. Butler delivers an engaging mix of humour and heartfelt advice on dating, healthy eating and friends.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">5 WOMEN I’VE UNDRESSED ORRY KELLY <span class="companylink">RANDOM HOUSE</span>, RRP $40 The long-lost memoir of Australian Orry Kelly, who became a legendary Hollywood designer, dressing the likes of Bette Davis and Marilyn Monroe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">6 YES PLEASE AMY POEHLER MACMILLAN, RRP $33 US comedian Amy Poehler’s fans aren’t worried that this is more of a scrapbook of ideas and anecdotes than a memoir — it still makes them laugh.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">7 AN ASTRONAUT’S GUIDE TO LIFE ON EARTH CHRIS HADFIELD MACMILLAN, RRP $20 Best known for his zero-gravity cover version of Bowie’s Space Oddity, Hadfield offers insight into the space program and the life of an astronaut.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">8 GITTINS ROSS GITTINS ALLEN & UNWIN, RRP $33 Journalist Ross Gittins reviews 40 years covering the ups and downs of the Australian economy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">9 WALKING FREE MUNJED AL MUDERIS ALLEN & UNWIN, RRP $33 The true story of a young man who fled war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a <b>refugee</b> by <b>boat</b>, spent months in a detention centre and went on to become a pioneering surgeon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">10 THE HAPPIEST <b>REFUGEE</b> ANH DO ALLEN & UNWIN, RRP $33 This 2010 autobiography by comedian Anh Do is an uplifting story about overcoming adversity and remains one of Australia’s best-selling books.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SPECIAL OFFERS A Guide to Berlin $25, save $8 Black Rabbit Hall $25, save $8 Fletch $27, save $8 The Nature of the Beast $22, save $8 List supplied by Dymocks Australia, based on sales at 70 booksellers nationwide.*Order online at heraldsun.com.au/shop, or post a cheque or money order with the title on the front of the envelope to Herald Sun Shop, PO Box 14730,</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gnonfi : Non-fiction Books | nran : Rankings | gbook : Books | gcat : Political/General News | gent : Arts/Entertainment | ncat : Content Types</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document HERSUN0020150828eb8t0008d</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020150828eb8t0006e" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News Review</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>They can't comb-over the migrant issue</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Josephine Tovey - Josephine Tovey is a Fairfax journalist living in the US.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>903 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Who said it, Tony Abbott or Donald Trump? "We have lost control of our country. We have lost control of our borders."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not immediately clear? That particular quote comes from Trump, the tub-thumping American mogul-turned-reality television star and Republican presidential hopeful, who has surged to the top of his party's polls with inflammatory rhetoric on immigration and the weakness of current border control. But it could just as easily have come from the mouth of any number of Australian politicians.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The Rudd government has completely lost control of our borders," Abbott told us over and over again in the lead-up to the last federal election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I moved from Australia to the United States this year, our toxic, hyperbolic discussion about <b>asylum</b> seekers and border control was something I was happy to leave behind.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So what luck then that, just a few months after arriving in America, the rhetoric on immigration here took this sharp, bellicose turn.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The issue had already been an increasingly contentious one in the US - particularly the complex questions of how to deal with more than 10 million undocumented migrants, the Obama administration's use of family detention, as well as the movement of both migrants and refugees across the southern border.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it has exploded in recent months thanks to Trump. A rash of disparaging comments about Mexicans has been accompanied by outlandish promises: mass deportations, securing the border in the most extreme and expensive ways possible and denying American citizenship to babies born to undocumented migrant parents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many Americans - including some in the Republican party - are aghast.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As an Australian I feel, depressingly, right at home. Of course, there are huge, complex differences between Australia and the US on the issues of immigration and refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Trump's tactics and focus bear a remarkable similarity to those of many politicians in Australia, invoking fears about a loss of national sovereignty and threats to community safety to win over uneasy sections of the public.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trump burst into the presidential race with a jaw-dropping speech declaring the Mexicans coming across the border were "bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists". He has leapt on and heavily politicised isolated incidents of immigrants committing serious crime, and flippantly refers to all undocumented migrants as "illegals". And "they have to go", he's said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sound familiar?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The current federal government has long used words like "illegal" to refer to <b>asylum</b> seekers, with former immigration minister Scott Morrison directing his staff to use the dehumanising and misleading term "illegal maritime arrivals" when referring to those arriving by <b>boat</b>. He has told refugees in detention to go home, or be settled somewhere else overseas. In the meantime, they suffer indefinitely in foreign camps supported by both Labor and Liberal governments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In opposition, Morrison leapt on a case of a Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b> seeker accused of sexual assault to call for "behavioural protocols" and suspension of our community release program, a move even a member of his own party said vilified <b>asylum</b> seekers. Within months of being elected, a new <b>asylum</b> seekers "code of conduct" was introduced. This is despite the absence of a <b>refugee</b> crime wave in Australia - <b>asylum</b> seekers living in the community are, in fact, less likely to commit crimes than the general population.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there's the obsession with "border control" by any means.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trump has vowed to secure the southern border of the United States by building a giant wall - a project ridiculous in both scope and cost, and one he boasts he can get the Mexican government to pay for.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This paranoid fixation echoes our own. The word "border" is uttered by this government like a nervous tic. the Minister for Immigration and now Border Protection, Operation Sovereign Borders, Border Patrol. No one has proposed a defensive wall, not yet, anyway. Instead we have <b>boat</b> turnbacks and massive, secretive naval responses to the arrival of single boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More recently, Trump has focused on plans to tackle "anchor babies" - a derogatory term for children born to undocumented migrants. He doesn't believe they're entitled to citizenship - despite this birthright being protected by the American constitution. His specific proposals are certainly more outlandish and his language more vulgar than that of our politicians at times - we use a dog whistle, Trump prefers a bullhorn. But the fervour over an alien peril is something we have in common.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Australia, this stance has been a vote-winner, with clear support for an ever tougher response. Dissident voices in the federal Liberal and Labor parties grow weaker. Morrison's "success" in "managing" the immigration portfolio is frequently talked up as a leadership credential.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the surface of it, it's proved a winning strategy for Trump, too, helping him grab the limelight in a crowded Republican field and rallying a hardline base. But there is a strong and growing backlash - widespread boycotts of his businesses and pageants, disastrous approval ratings with Hispanic voters. Popular media figures such as Jorge Ramos, the news anchor of Spanish language station Univision, unashamedly call out Trump as a voice of "intolerance, hatred and division".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Too bad for us, though, that America's hateful buffoon candidate sounds so much like our actual leaders.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gtraff : Trafficking/Smuggling | gillim : Illegal Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | nrvw : Reviews | gcat : Political/General News | gcrim : Crime/Courts | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfce : C&E Exclusion Filter | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | usa : United States | namz : North America | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020150828eb8t0006e</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150827eb8s0008i" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>World</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Horrors unfold on land and sea</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JAMIE WALKER MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>541 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the space of 48 hours the litany of horrors of Europe’s biggest ­migration since World War II ­unfolded on land and sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At least 20 migrants were yesterday found dead inside a truck on a highway in Austria.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The day before Swedish ­rescuers hacked open the deck of <b>boat</b> packed with <b>asylum</b>-seekers off Libya and were sickened by what lay beneath: 55 bodies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The truck, which contained between 20 and 50 bodies, was found in an emergency lane off the highway near the border with Hungary, police spokesman Hans Peter Doskozil said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Today is a dark day ... This tragedy affects us all deeply,” ­Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the discovery was a warning to Europe to get to grips with the migrant crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We were all shaken by the horrible news that up to 50 people died ... although these were people coming to seek safety,” she said in Vienna. “This is a warning to work to resolve this problem and show solidarity”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is thought that the truck had been parked in the area since Wednesday. The finds add to the litany of horror that has unfolded this summer, as tens of thousands fleeing wars in the Middle East and North Africa claim <b>refugee</b> protection in ­Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The victims found in the Mediterranean were among 400-plus people herded by people-smugglers on to a rickety wooden <b>boat</b> that was making for Italy when its engine failed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They were apparently suffocated by motor fumes, the bodies stacked into a hold that became so full it could be accessed safely only by pulling up the decking. The Swedish rescue ship, ­Poseidon, had been mobilised under a EU operation to deal with the influx of boats in calmer conditions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Swedes were taking 130 people off a sinking raft when they were called to assist the drifting <b>boat</b>. Informed there were bodies below deck, they were staggered by the gruesome scene in the hold.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Three women were later found dead among the 120 people taken off a rubber <b>boat</b>, Italian authorities reported. Another person died after being picked up in a ­separate rescue, one of 10 operations that plucked 3000 people from the sea on Wednesday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 2800 people are known to have perished trying to cross the Mediterranean this year, and 110,000 have landed in Italian ports alone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This reflects the epic scale of the crisis that has been generated by the civil war in Syria and the overlapping <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> insurgency in Iraq, with upwards of four million homeless, plus unresolved humanitarian crises in Libya, Sudan and the Horn of ­Africa. People-smugglers are reported to charge up to $US1100 ($1548) a head for the perilous voyage from Libya to Italy, the heaviest-travelled route.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another pipeline has opened up through Greece and the Balkans, intensifying pressure on the EU’s open borders.Under the Dublin regulation, <b>asylum</b>-­seekers are supposed to claim ­refuge in the first EU state they reach. However, those crossing into Hungary have refused to be fingerprinted because they want to go on to prosperous west European countries such as Germany and register there.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020150827eb8s0008i</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150826eb8r0002u" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Boat</b> policy secrecy is not spin, says chief</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>STEFANIE BALOGH   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>580 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The secrecy cloaking Operation Sovereign Borders exists for operational, not political, reasons, ­Immigration Department head Mike Pezzullo said yesterday as he hit out at characterisations of the policy as merely a “stop the boats’’ slogan as naive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a wide-ranging address on leadership, Mr Pezzullo also ­rejected any suggestions Australia should “give up’’ on regional processing, warning “what you are ­really saying, and this is the conundrum that other jurisdictions are going through at the moment, is the smugglers are part of your supply chain’’.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If they deliver people to your frontier, they take their money and they are gone at no risk, and you have actually authorised them to be part of your delivery network. And I don’t think we should do that,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Pezzullo, who once served as Kim Beazley’s deputy chief of staff and is now an influential and respected department secretary, was speaking at the Trans- ­Tasman Business Circle in ­Canberra.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the process of implementing Operation Sovereign Borders after the 2013 election, Mr Pez­zullo said “the thought that it was just a bunch of politicians dreaming up the slogan saying ‘stop the boats’ and then that’s the extent of the policy is frankly naive’’. “It’s ­actually disrespectful and derogatory to the men and women who serve in our parliament, who do so with a great sense of duty and diligence ... they know what the stakes are,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott government’s signature border protection policy ­involves turning back <b>asylum</b>- seeker vessels when safe to do so, as well as the regional processing and resettlement of those who come via <b>boat</b> in offshore centres in Nauru and Manus Island, off Papua New Guinea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Pezzullo made it clear the department stood separate from politics. “It wouldn’t matter which party was giving us the direction, and I just note that after the recent Labor Party national conference it’s a largely bipartisan position,’’ he said. “So I can say this with a bit more safety now that it is likely to be my future strategic direction ­irrespective of the outcome of the next election.’’ He said Operation Sovereign Borders had been well thought out and operational planning ­involved the department examining models from around the world, including the US Coastguard and <span class="companylink">US Navy</span> operations in the Caribbean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We were very confident in the preparatory work that we had done to the extent that you’re ­allowed to prepare without consultation with the opposition for incoming policies,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some of the parameters that needed to be put in place related to operational secrecy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Again our colleagues in the fourth estate … think that’s a political strategy, well it’s not,’’ Mr Pezzullo said. “Sometimes you know you get professionals like me saying no, you need to do this from an operational point of view.’’ At the time, Mr Pezzullo was the head of Customs, which earlier this year merged with the Immigration Department, and the stand-alone Australian Border Force agency was formed. Mr Pezzullo also praised those working in his department, saying: “Our frontline people — weight for age, man and woman for man and woman — are magnificent, best in the world,’’ he said.And while saying he served the government of the day, he gave the Abbott government and previous Gillard and Rudd governments credit for their “respectful support’’ as they implemented border protection policies.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Comedy probes complex issue</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>797 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. I am of Sinhalese background. I have three younger brothers. My parents were art lovers, they enjoy drama, music and dance. My skill as a child was painting and sculpture. When I went to high school I selected drama and theatre subjects. I started doing theatre, writing plays and directing. I also did painting. In Sri Lanka when you do a play, you have to do it by yourself. Then if someone's interested in it, other people come and do your play and tour around the country.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My first play was called My Group, for school, when I was 19. It was an educational comedy. It went very well, it was quite popular. Because it became popular, I had lots of other opportunities. We have different types of theatre, including traditional styles, which can date back 1000 years. My style is more experimental. When I left high school, I studied advanced drama diploma courses at a few institutions. I did painting at the University of Kelaniya. I started doing plays in the mainstream, a few of them won a national competition - best script, best director, best playwright a few times. There was lots of political unrest in Sri Lanka. University courses were dragging, sometimes the whole university system was shut down for years. In 1989, there was an uprising in Sri Lanka. My first full-length play, The Jewellery, the theme was that political unrest, which won the best play of the year in 1993. It's about a man's leg, which had been cut off and was lying in the street. It was quite common at that time. One man found the leg and he's shocked - he's looking for the owner of the leg. It's a tragic, black comedy. That play was translated into English and discussed here at the Merrigong Theatre Company. Young people revolted against the corrupt government. It was a class struggle. The government killed many people. I saw the bodies of people shot dead or burnt on the street. Most of my early plays were talking about those kind of things.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The conflict with the <span class="companylink">Tamil Tigers</span> (LTTE) started after the British left. It's quite complex. Power was divided very unfairly. The minority were treated badly by the majority, so the Tamil movement started in the early '80s. Lots of residents were killed. In 2009 the war ended, with <span class="companylink">the LTTE</span> defeated technically but the issue was still there. Lots of civilians lost their property, when the war ended they went back and couldn't prove it was their land. My plays were banned many times in Sri Lanka, by the government. I started teaching theatre in 1994 at the University of Kelaniya. I worked at a few universities as a lecturer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I was given a presidential scholarship and came to Australia in 2003 with my wife Suromi and then the <span class="companylink">University of Wollongong</span> gave me a scholarship. I think I was the first South Asian to study drama at UOW. The educational system here is totally different. I had a lot of difficulties at the beginning but the faculty helped me a lot. I directed a play in 2004 as part of my masters, The Zoo Story, which went very well. Suromi is doing a masters in special education at UOW. She runs a dance school in Sydney. In 2005 I got permanent residency. In 2007, I did two plays at Merrigong through the independent artists program, The Zoo Story and The Story of the Last Bus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to Australian laws, they are obliged to help people coming from other countries, illegally or whatever. If they have a policy, they should follow it or get rid of the policy. The government have to look at the human rights. On the other hand, they are having trouble finding who is a genuine <b>refugee</b> or not. People who come illegally on a <b>boat</b> usually need around at least $10,000 to pay a people smuggler. If you have $10,000 in Sri Lanka, you're quite a rich man. People who can't find $10,000 are real refugees in their own country. We talk about these things in my play A Sri Lankan Tamil <b>Asylum</b> Seeker's Story as Performed by Australian Actors Under the Guidance of a Sinhalese Director, at the IPAC from September 16 to 26. My co-director is David Williams and it stars Adam Booth and Anthony Gooley. It's a complex issue. My plays shock the audience and are provocative. You are also made to laugh at things that shouldn't be laughed at. You are morally and politically questioned. My website is dhananjaya.net.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gedu : Education | gcat : Political/General News | gscho : School</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>srilan : Sri Lanka | austr : Australia | nswals : New South Wales | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | indsubz : Indian Subcontinent | sasiaz : Southern Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document ILM0000020150826eb8q0003n</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150824eb8p0008g" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>A pub for the people in a town beyond the boom</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jessica Grewal   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>547 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Vietnamese <b>refugee</b> returns to the bush town that first nurtured him</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Few have ridden the highs and lows of a resources boom with the grace and humility exuded by <b>refugee</b> turned millionaire entrepreneur Son Ngo.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the coal-seam gas heartland of Miles, about 300km northwest of Brisbane, the colourful Queensland businessman is doing what no other savvy investor would dare — he’s pouring big dollars into a historic pub that has not enjoyed a decent trade since Australia’s Pacific LNG Project wound up construction and took its orange army of workers with it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On any given weekend, Mr Ngo can be found helping labour­ers restore Hotel Australia and while he may be sporting designer jeans and leather shoes, the much-loved member of Miles’s first Vietnamese family has never forgotten arriving in his adopted country at age 10 with only the clothes on his back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His mother, having lost her husband in the Vietnam War, had gathered the courage to pile her family into a rickety <b>boat</b> in search of a better life. They found it in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fast forward a decade and it was a town of few more than 1000 people, in the harsh Queensland outback, that gave Mr Ngo his first taste of running a business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A relative had bought the local supermarket and if Mr Ngo was prepared to work hard enough, it was his.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Long days spent working the cash register paid off and eventually Mr Ngo was not only owner of a small supermarket but also much of main street. When it was time to raise a family, Mr Ngo relocated to Brisbane, where he built an investment portfolio of supermarkets, fast-food outlets and property.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the Surat Basin gas pipe dream ended almost overnight last February, leaving local subcontractors without work and whole streets of empty houses, he decided it was time to give back to Miles and return to the town.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When he arrived, nostalgia was mixed with pangs of guilt.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s the first to admit that during the peak construction time in 2013, the pub had cashed in on the boom, charging $40 plus for a steak.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When we came back, my wife and I looked at the menu, then we looked at each other and just said ‘No one is going to be able to ­afford this’,” Mr Ngo said “We knew things had to change and the first thing was that the pub had to be for the ­people of Miles.” Slowly, the stories of Miles — beauty pageants, country women’s association meetings and more — are being told through picture murals that Mr Ngo is putting around the hotel walls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The community is responding.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A walk down the main street sees political correctness abandoned as greetings almost always make reference to his Asian heritage but carry with them great ­respect and affection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Ngo knows the hotel is almost guaranteed not to return a profit but hopes it will not only restore hope to the community but also attract tourists looking to connect with the Australia of yesteryear.“I am forever grateful for what this town and this country has given me,” Mr Ngo said</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Am I a racist, anti-gay, anti-Semite and uncaring bastard?</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Peter Patmore   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>849 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter Patmore bemoans the use of cheap and lazy labels in a bid to win an argument</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The more I watch the news the more I am convinced our national sport has become one of manufacturing outrage and labelling anyone who disagrees on issues as a bigot or radical.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unfortunately, this simplistic pigeonholing insults everyone involved. It’s as easy as it is lazy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The more we yell, the harder it is to allow someone to have a nuanced position — it’s all or nothing and, between you and me, I’m sick of it. How can we hope to reach a balanced opinion without considering other viewpoints?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I’m not necessarily balanced it’s just that I find I am committing the sin of not standing in the all or nothing camp — and often I’m unconcerned or concerned for unpopular reasons.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Let’s look at some of issues that polarise — gay marriage, Adam Goodes, <b>boat</b> turnbacks, Muslims and citizenship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gay Marriage Excuse me while I yawn. I just don’t care that much. I can’t see the argument against being all that valid but I refuse to be outraged. I don’t see why a person’s sexuality has anything to do with me. The concept of marriage has never been static. I recall my old law lectures pointing out that some time ago upon marriage a woman became the property of the husband, yet today we would regard that as primitive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If someone loves someone, let them get married. End of debate. Get over it, move on. But I am at risk because I don’t want to yell my opinion. I am obviously uncaring and treating the debate with a lack of respect for gays or I support those who seek to destroy the sacred bonds of marriage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Adam Goodes To outraged letter writers and journalists the Goodes debate was a black and white issue (bad pun intended) where the booing was racist or it wasn’t.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although there was a racist element Goodes contributed to the extent of the problem. If you antagonise a pack of bogans, what do you expect? And let’s not forget the inherent hypocrisy in this. What would have been the outrage if a white footballer fired an imaginary gun at a group of Aboriginal spectators? If you listen carefully, you will hear me stifling a yawn again because, horror, I’m in the middle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Boat</b> turn-backs I support Labor’s position. I am happy to increase <b>refugee</b> intake, but I support the turn-back policy. Not because I see a difference between those who come by <b>boat</b> and those who come by planes, but because I believe one vital aspect of a sovereign nation is it must control its borders. Any other policy leads to an influx of boats and deaths at sea. If you think that’s wrong, look at Italy and Greece. This puts me in the “uncaring bastard” tent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Muslims I’ve travelled through enough Muslim nations to know that people are the same the world over. The problem isn’t religion but fanatics and those who carry a cultural medieval world view. I am irritated by hijabs (veils) but offended by niqabs (full face coverings). My offence is not that it denotes Muslims but that it is a cultural throwback that demeans women. I’ll be more accepting when I see their male partners dressed the same way. I see it as subjugation of women. This must make me anti-Muslim or anti-multicultural, or non-PC.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Citizenship Becoming a citizen is a contract whereby you accept the social values of this country. If you can’t accept them, don’t be a citizen, and don’t think you can fight elsewhere for fanatics without consequences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Again I have sympathy for denying citizenship to those who fight and oppose Australia. Revocation of citizenship is nothing new and has always been on the statute books. Under Section 33 of the Australian Citizenship Act, it is revoked if a person serves in the armed forces of a country at war with Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My dilemma is I go further in wanting to exclude anyone who enlists in armed services of another country. At present the Government turns a blind eye to dual Australian-Israeli citizens who travel to Israel and enlist. To my mind that shows a disloyalty to Australia. Citizenship to me is not a matter of two bob each way but a solemn commitment. So it looks like I am against dual citizenship and firmly in the jingoistic anti-Semitic camp.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Well that’s it. I’m either anti-gay rights or for the destruction of the traditional family, possibly a racist, jingoistic anti-Semite, vacillating uncaring bastard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But at least I refuse to unthinkingly join the ranks of the polarised sheep and will not willingly be labelled. I bet there a many more like me.Peter Patmore is a former Labor attorney-general and deputy premier of Tasmania.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten’s boats policy rejected</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NICK CLARK   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>200 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TASMANIAN Labor’s opposition to the newly minted <b>asylum</b> seeker boats turnback policy is expected to be forwarded to the ALP’s National Policy Forum.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The National Forum is charged with producing a draft national platform for debate at the next national conference in 2016.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The office of Opposition spokesman for immigration and border protection Richard Marles said the policy was about saving lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Labor’s Regional Resettlement Arrangement has played a critical role in stopping people from making the dangerous and deadly sea journey to Australia,” a spokeswoman said. “This policy together with turnbacks has put an end to a loss of life at sea.” A vote at the Labor state conference at the weekend reflected the strong opposition to <b>boat</b> turnbacks by Tasmanian representatives at the 2015 ALP National Conference in late July.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The vote against offshore processing on Manus Island and Nauru and turnbacks was carried on the voices, with estimates that 70 per cent supported the motion.It is understood 19 of Tasmania’s 23 delegates to the National Conference were opposed to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s policy including Senator Carol Brown and Franklin MP Julie Collins.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>No turning back in new euthanasia push</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>BLAIR RICHARDS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>267 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TASMANIAN Labor endorsed a renewed push for voluntary euthanasia and rejected <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks in heated debates at the state conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MP Lara Giddings presented a motion calling for a legal framework around voluntary assisted dying.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Giddings said it was wrong that people with terminal illnesses and severe degenerative conditions were forced to endure prolonged suffering or resort to taking their own life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Very few people ever pass away peacefully in their sleep,” she said. “As we age, there are many more people who are dying difficult deaths.” As premier, Ms Giddings co-sponsored a failed euthanasia Bill and says Labor will pursue the issue again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Elliott Bell, from the Newstead branch, said many opposed voluntary euthanasia because it would lead to elderly people being coerced into ending their lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“People will exploit their vulnerability. People will die involuntarily,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s <b>asylum</b>-seeker policies also caused friction.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Bellerive Howrah branch moved that Labor reject offshore processing and <b>boat</b> turnbacks but Senator Helen Polley encouraged the conference to support turnbacks in line with federal ALP policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The position was taken to avoid a return to the drowning tragedies that occurred under the last Labor government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We failed those 1200 people who drowned at sea,” she said. Senator Polley’s call was rejected by the majority.Left faction executive member Adam Clarke received a round of applause when he told the conference that the federal conference had been wrong to endorse turnbacks. “On these issues, Bill Shorten is fundamentally wrong,” Mr Clarke said.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Nicole Hasham  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>556 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A009</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seeker deeply distressed by guard's claim</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Nicole Hasham</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Joseph Zreika* fled Lebanon with visions of Australia as "the best country" with "good people and justice for everyone". But after the <b>asylum</b> seeker was allegedly framed by an Australian guard at Nauru for a violent assault he did not commit, these days he is sadder and wiser. Mr Zreika, aged in his 20s, was jailed for more than one month over the incident. Speaking from a Melbourne detention centre, he recounted the anger and exhaustion that drove him to try to hang himself in a hot, stuffy tent at the Nauru detention camp. The Department of Immigration and Border Protection has launched an investigation after <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> on Thursday revealed allegations that a Wilson Security guard falsely claimed Mr Zreika violently hit him. The guard allegedly perjured himself in court before confessing to the lie in a secret recording made by a colleague. Mr Zreika left Lebanon for safety reasons he has declined to make public. He flew to Indonesia and said he arrived at Christmas Island by <b>boat</b> in May 2013. He was transferred to Nauru, the controversial detention camp run by <span class="companylink">Transfield Services</span>, which is plagued by evidence of child abuse, sexual assault and poor living conditions for detainees. Mr Zreika's younger brother fled to Australia later and the pair were placed in different sections of the Nauru camp. On the day of the alleged attack in August last year, Mr Zreika asked a Wilson guard for permission to eat lunch with his brother when</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">the guard "started shouting at me and swearing at me. He fell down by himself, and said I hurt him." Mr Zreika was charged with assault. In jail, he was denied halal food and lived off bread and milk. "I was very tired and upset because I was in jail for nothing, I didn't do anything," he said. The matter went to court, but a judgement was delayed for months. "I felt angry, I felt my situation is very bad. I was thinking I want to feel rest from this situation, to die, to stop hurting my family." Becoming unbearably distraught one day, the young man tried to hang himself in his tent - his life saved only by a fellow <b>asylum</b> seeker who came to check on him. The court later found Mr Zreika not guilty after two female workers who witnessed the incident disputed the guard's account. He left Nauru in April this year and is now at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre awaiting the outcome of his <b>refugee</b> claim. The Wilson guard has been suspended on full pay while his employer reviews the incident. In the recording, the guard allegedly said he fabricated the assault so Mr Zreika, whom he disliked, would be convicted of a crime and never settle in Australia. Mr Zreika questioned why he was still in detention when other detainees, many of them his friends, had been released. "I would like [to stay in Australia] because it's safe more than my country and one day I can save my family also," he said. "All I want is to get out from here, and to see my brother next to me." *Not his real name</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcrim : Crime/Courts | gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | nauru : Nauru | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020150821eb8m0001a</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-NEHR000020150823eb8m0000k" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News - International</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Heartbreaking image strikes chord</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Kate Aubusson   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>139 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>39</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A photograph of a Syrian <b>refugee</b> clasping his son and daughter after their flimsy <b>boat</b> arrived safely on the Greek island of Kos has struck a chord with thousands across the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Freelance photographer Daniel Etter took the photo - first published in The <span class="companylink">New York Times</span> - of Laith Majid, who fled with his wife and three children from the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor to Turkey.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Majid and his children were among 15 men, women and children aboard a flimsy rubber <b>boat</b> which had crossed to Kos from the Turkish resort town of Bodrum, Etter said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The refugees were soaked when they arrived at the shore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They were then completely relieved to have arrived safely," the photographer told the German newspaper Der Spiegel. Kate Aubusson</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b> seekers’ assaults shame</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>220 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>BOAT</b> people are among those involved in 200 vicious ­assaults on detention centre staff at facilities across the nation this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton yesterday confirmed some of the legacy caseload of <b>boat</b> people from the previous Labor government had been involved in attacks that included serious assaults.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fifty-three per cent of those in detention centres are <b>asylum</b> seekers, while 47 per cent are violent criminals awaiting deportation because they are not Australian citizens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Security officers at the centres are still waiting to be granted the same powers as prison guards to use force to defend themselves in dangerous situations. Labor and the Greens have been holding up a Bill in the Senate that would grant officers more power under the Migration Act.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton said the Abbott Government would be sending those who did not meet criteria to remain in Australia back to their native countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Australian public get this,’’ he said. “There were 50,000 people who came on 800 boats and we’ve still got 30,000 here and it’s costing us millions of dollars every week.“We want them to go back to your country of origin, but in many cases they’ve got lawyers involved and they’re held up in long legal process.”</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcrim : Crime/Courts | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document HERSUN0020150820eb8l0004l</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020150820eb8l0002b" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Radio Persia, via Jakarta, is giving a voice to <b>asylum</b>-seekers</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DEBORAH CASSRELS, DENPASAR   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>544 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s five minutes to midnight. Chatter ebbs amid a flurry of anticip­ation. The countdown begins. At exactly midnight Jakarta time, an Iranian <b>refugee</b> couple hit the airwaves broadcasting to thousands in Darwin and Southeast Asia from the Indonesian capital.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s not quite Good Morning Vietnam but the Farsi introduction on Radio Pars (Persia) draws in Afghan­ and Iranian refugees and <b>asylum</b>-seekers listening from Indon­esia, Malaysia, Thailand and Darwin. To the roughly 7000-strong audience, the program run by volunteers Mohammad and Shirin Bagherian offers more than a bright spot on a bleak horizon.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It can divert notions of suicide for those battling depression over dire circumstances and the impact of loved ones who drowned en route to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We try to deliver hope and ­social development … and to prevent­ them from illegally crossing the ocean,’’ says Mr Bagherian, 36, an IT expert and diving instructor who, as a migrant, is prohibited from working in Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Too often the couple have witnessed the tragic aftermath of desperate <b>asylum</b>-seekers attempting the passage to Australia. “We encourage them to seek <b>asylum</b> through the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>,’’ he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The church-sponsored, one-hour radio program, which first aired last October, is streamed live via the Viber mobile app.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Many of our listeners who lost their family at sea are sharing their painful experiences on this radio program,’’ Mr Bagherian says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Offshore processing and Australia’s <b>boat</b> turnback policy have stopped traffic, but the return in the humanit­arian program from the one-off 20,000 resettlement places in 2012-13 to 13,750 is ­taking a toll on strained ser­vices and banked-up <b>asylum</b>-­seekers. The government announced in November that it would ban resettlement in Australia of <b>asylum</b>-seekers registered with the <span class="companylink">UN High Commissioner for Refugees</span> in Indonesia after July 1 last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There has been no resettlement to Australia since June. Only the US and New Zealand were receiv­ing refugees,’’ said Febi ­Yonesta, the chairman of Indon­esian advocacy group Suaka.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The chief of mission for the International Organisation for ­Migra­tion in Indonesia, Mark Getchell, affirms <span class="companylink">IOM</span> housing has increased, with 3456 migrants accom­modated to last month compared with 2561 last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Bagherians and their seven-year-old son rely on church largesse and share a house with other refugees. In return, they run church ser­vices, English and IT classes and support <b>refugee</b> communities. On-air, they proffer advice­, prayers and relevant news.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Though the program is not political, we share news about ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers and refugees round the world,’’ Mr Bagherian says. “We broadcast Australia’s new policies and statements and current news about the Mediterranean <b>asylum</b>-seeker crisis, sourced from publications and international news agencies.’’ Persecuted for its Christian faith, the family is among a backlog of 13,188 people stranded in Indon­esia. Arriving there in 2010, the multilingual Bagherians were granted <b>refugee</b> status three years ago but were denied Australian resettlement in April. Now in line for another country, they despair of the hardships and the wait.Radio Pars broadcasts each Monday and Thursday on 100.6 FM in Jakarta through Christian radio station Heartline.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>indon : Indonesia | austr : Australia | jakar : Jakarta | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020150820eb8l0002b</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ILM0000020150820eb8k0001y" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Migrant numbers triple, tracking shows</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>158 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BRUSSELS: More than three times as many migrants were tracked entering the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> by irregular means last month than a year ago, the latest official data shows, many of them landing on Greek islands after fleeing conflict in Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The increase - nearly 110,000 migrants in July - may be partly due to better monitoring. But it highlights the scale of a crisis that has led to more than 2000 deaths this year.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Italian police said they had arrested eight suspected human traffickers who had allegedly forced migrants to stay in the hold of a fishing <b>boat</b> as 49 of them suffocated on engine fumes. There were 312 survivors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greece appealed to the EU for a comprehensive strategy to deal with what new data showed were 21,000 refugees landing on Greek shores in the last week alone. The EU says 625,000 claimed <b>asylum</b> in 2014. Reuters</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nswals : New South Wales | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document ILM0000020150820eb8k0001y</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020150819eb8k0001m" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Nauru guard 'confesses' to framing <b>asylum</b> seeker for assault</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Nicole Hasham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1089 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Nicole Hasham</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nauru guard 'confesses' to framing <b>asylum</b> seeker for assault</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A photo taken inside the Nauru detention centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An Australian-paid guard at Nauru is accused of falsely claiming an <b>asylum</b> seeker violently assaulted him, then perjuring himself in court before confessing to the lie in a secret recording made by a <span class="companylink">colleague.Fairfax Media</span> has obtained a copy of the alleged confession, in which the Wilson Security guard boasts about the incident and jokes about taking a "dive" - the sporting term for falling to the ground and faking an injury. The guard said he wanted the <b>asylum</b> seeker convicted so he would never be settled in Australia. The <b>asylum</b> seeker is believed to be a young Iranian man. It is understood he spent one month in jail for the alleged assault and tried to kill himself at least three times after being falsely accused - once almost hanging himself. Wilson Security says there was not enough evidence to make a finding against the guard, despite the company's investigators apparently recording his confession. Wilson admits it knew about the guard's potentially false claim but refused to say if it shared this information with a Nauru court deciding the assault case. The <b>asylum</b> seeker was later found not guilty. Wilson kept the alleged fabrication hidden from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, raising concern potentially criminal behaviour is occurring in taxpayer- funded offshore camps. The controversy also raises questions over Wilson's response to a host of other alleged incidents at the Nauru detention centre, such as the sexual misconduct of guards, the torture of detainees and spying on senator Sarah Hanson-Young - allegations the company's officials either played down or denied. In an official report of the alleged assault dated August 13 last year!!, obtained by <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>, the guard said he was controlling an access point between two camp sections when the <b>asylum</b> seeker tried to push past to visit his brother. "While defenceless and holding a two-way radio I was struck with a left fist or forearm by [the <b>asylum</b> seeker]," the guard, who speaks with an Australian accent, said. "I moved my arms down in front of me as [the <b>asylum</b> seeker] continued forcing his way forward. I was then tripped or kicked [in] the lower left leg before we both fell to the ground." The guard said he suffered facial bruising. However a source close to the incident told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> he believed the injuries were self-inflicted afterwards. The incident was reported to Nauru Police and the <b>asylum</b> seeker was charged with assault. Court documents show the guard later repeated the claims in a Nauru court. The <b>asylum</b> seeker was found not guilty in February this year after two female witnesses who worked at the camp disputed the guard's account. A former Wilson employee told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> that several months before the court verdict, the guard told colleagues he fabricated his story. The source said Wilson investigators arranged for a staff member to covertly record a confession from the guard. It is believed the staff member entered an office where the guard was working and engaged</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">him in conversation, recording the encounter on an iPhone. The guard is asked about the <b>asylum</b> seeker, whom he purportedly disliked prior to the incident. In the recording, he indicates the <b>asylum</b> seeker lightly touched him but "I've gone 'Aaah, he's hit me in the face'. [I've] grabbed him, pulled him to the ground and he's lying on top of me and [I yelled], 'Get off me, get off me you f---ing bastard'. "He did push past and strike me. But we are talking about the level of the strike that [is] really in contention here," the guard says, before laughing. "It may have been a small dive. Just sayin' ... F--- him ... it was mainly because [the <b>asylum</b> seeker is] a shithead." The guard said he wanted a conviction recorded against the <b>asylum</b> seeker "because then he doesn't go to Australia ... that's all I was hoping to get out of it". Wilson would not verify the recording. It is understood Wilson management in Australia was provided a copy of the recording as part of an internal investigation which concluded the guard lied about the assault, committed perjury and perverted the course of justice. The company would not confirm this. While Wilson admits it was alerted to potential problems with the guard's account before the court delivered its verdict, the firm refused to say if it shared the information with the court or informed the Immigration Department.The former employee said Wilson management wanted the incident "buried". He said the <b>asylum</b> seeker became highly distressed after being accused, especially when fellow passengers on the <b>boat</b> he arrived on were moved to Australia while he was forced to stay behind due to the court action. "He became angry and agitated. During that time he tried to kill himself three times and the third attempt was very serious," the former employee said, referring to an attempted hanging. The former employee said the <b>asylum</b> seeker spent two weeks in jail after the initial allegations and another two weeks when he breached bail conditions. A current Wilson employee said the guard had previously had an altercation with the <b>asylum</b> seeker and wanted to "square up, if you like, and he waited for the opportunity". In a statement, Wilson said it reopened its investigation into the assault "when made aware of additional information suggesting the incident had not occurred as described". "At the conclusion of the investigation there was insufficient evidence to make a finding against the staff member," the statement said, adding an independent review of the investigation has been commissioned and the staff member involved has been suspended while it is under way. Wilson would not say when the review was instigated, who is conducting it and whether the guard is being paid while suspended. The Department of Immigration said it was alerted to the alleged fabrication by an anonymous submission to a Senate inquiry into the Nauru detention centre. The department has "requested a full briefing from Wilson Security on the incident". Senator Hanson-Young, spied on by Wilson staff when visiting in December 2013, said that incident, "together with the serious nature of abuse against women and children inside the camp, shows the government contractors are acting as a law unto themselves".</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gassa : Assault | gcrim : Crime/Courts | gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nauru : Nauru | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020150819eb8k0001m</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020150819eb8k00055" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Arts</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Moonwalking to a brave new life</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Garry Maddox   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>519 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Iranian <b>refugee</b> Abbas Sharhani spent three months in a Darwin detention centre, he was told how much he resembled Michael Jackson.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Who?" he wondered.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The King of Pop was hardly known in the south of Iran where Sharhani lived as a member of the minority Ahwaz community until he fled as a 16-year-old, leaving his family behind. He made his way to Malaysia, Indonesia then Christmas Island by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But when Sharhani watched Jackson's music videos as he settled into a new life in Australia, he became fascinated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I just loved him so much," he says. "I said to myself 'I just want to be that guy'."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After learning the dance moves from music videos, Sharhani is working as a Michael Jackson impersonator.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With his hair straightened and plastic surgery on his nose - his old one looked too much like his idol when he was black, he says - he calls himself Moon Jackson.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I do the dances," he says. "I dress like him. Everything."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Well, not quite everything. Limited English restricts his singing, but he is working on it in the hope of getting more work at clubs and parties.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now Sharhani's transformation from <b>asylum</b> seeker to the spitting image of the late pop star is the subject of a short documentary, Man in the Mirror, which has its world premiere at the Arab Film Festival Australia in Sydney last week, ahead of festival screenings in Melbourne and Canberra.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sharhani, a 20-year-old from Warwick Farm in south-western Sydney, remembers being terrified on the <b>boat</b> with 50 other <b>asylum</b> seekers during the journey to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I thought we were going to die," he says. "It was really dangerous. Three days, no food. I had nothing."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sharhani's very western career choice - and the nose job it required - has upset his strict Muslim parents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They are like 'why would you impersonate someone you don't know?"' he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even with a new career, Sharhani has found Australia a difficult place to live away from his family, describing himself as "one of the loneliest people on this earth".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Directed by fellow Iranian <b>refugee</b> Ali Mousawi, Man in the Mirror first screened in Sydney's west on Sunday, with Sharhani performing afterwards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mousawi was shocked when he first met Sharhani through a mutual friend in Parramatta.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He really looked like MJ," he says. "And he practised how to speak like him."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Festival co-director Fadia Abboud expects more than 2000 people will attend four days of screenings, including a big turnout by the Lebanese-Australian community for the Lebanese film Ghadi on opening night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She expects one of the highlights will be the road movie From A To B from the United Arab Emirates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's like The Hangover without the alcohol," she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The festival also includes films from Jordan, Egypt, Palestine and Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Arab Film Festival is at Carlton's Cinema Nova from August 21 to 23. Man in the Mirror screens on Friday, August 21.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">arabfilmfestival.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Secrecy risks rights abuses</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Kellie Tranter.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>774 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">opinion THEIR SAY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Government actions on Nauru need investigation, writes Kellie Tranter.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ALLEGATIONS that <b>asylum</b> seekers are being water-boarded while held in detention in Nauru, and their denial by government, is reminiscent of the Abu Ghraib scandal that engulfed the Bush Administration in 2004.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even though it became clear that senior members of the former Bush Administration were well aware of detainee abuse by US soldiers before the explosive Abu Ghraib photographs were published, it didn't prevent official denials and counter-allegations that Congress, civil libertarians and the media were exploiting the story to discredit the Bush Administration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Official condemnation focused solely on the work of a "few bad apples".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Subsequent examination of the Abu Ghraib scandal by well-known American psychologist Philip Zimbardo highlighted the systemic failures, including that of leadership, which ultimately led to the abuse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to Professor Zimbardo, good people do bad things when there's a dehumanisation of others, de-individuation of self, diffusion of personal responsibility, blind obedience to authority, uncritical conformity to group norms and passive tolerance of evil through inaction or indifference. All this usually occurs in a new or unfamiliar situation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Professor Zimbardo's analysis correctly describes the situation that inevitably corrupts the individual, then we have more than a little cause for concern.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott government has instructed department and detention staff to publicly refer to <b>asylum</b> seekers as illegal arrivals and as detainees, dressed public servants in military-style uniforms, ignored the fact that children identify more readily with their <b>boat</b> identification number than their name, implemented media bans, solidified departmental and contractor power and anonymity and blanketed all government policy and action in secrecy. How better to set the scene for significant human rights abuses?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's also a telling sign that, just as the Bush Administration blamed a "few bad apples" when evidence of misconduct emerged, a representative from Wilson security described the recent revelations of spying on Senator Sarah Hansen-Young as the "rogue actions of a misaligned individual".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Abbott government's initial response to the latest serious allegations of torture - and let's be frank about this, that's what they are - is to claim ignorance. A spokesman for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said no claims of water-boarding had been made to the government or brought to its attention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nothing is said about what the government does to ensure that human rights violations are not occurring in offshore detention centres, or what it proposes to do about the allegations now that they have emerged.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The response suggests that the government is following the "Abu Ghraib denial process": start with denials, and until much more pressure builds up there won't be any government investigation, and certainly no acknowledgment or action, and no attempt will be made to assess more general questions such as whether Wilson Security staff are properly prepared, trained and supervised.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And just as fundamentally, there will be no attempt to find out why the ongoing allegations of abuse keep coming or to identify the institutional and external factors around individuals who may be perpetrators of detainee abuse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Government policies of dehumanisation and blanket secrecy facilitate, and possibly encourage, the commission of crimes against <b>asylum</b> seekers held in detention centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Government policies of turning a blind eye and issuing "Abu Ghraib denials" in response to allegations or evidence of the commission of such crimes won't make them go away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the US experience has demonstrated, that approach progressively unwinds and in the end the public sees the criminal complicity, shameless mendacity and ultimate responsibility of the politicians and their lackeys who dictate the overriding agenda.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Back on the ground, there's a certain inevitability that more people will continue to defy the Border Force Act as being part of something so wrong becomes more and more intolerable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian citizens are becoming more outraged with the injustice and inequity and the fundamental evil that is being done in their name, and with the diminution in Australia's moral standing in the international community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Faced with widespread international condemnation the United States handed control of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison back to Iraqi authorities in 2005.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As further and more frequent disclosures of abuse and atrocities are made public, it might only be a matter of time before those in power are forced to close Australia's offshore detention centres. And they would do well to remember that any condoning of or complicity in human rights violations will undoubtedly register at the polls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kellie Tranter is a lawyer and human rights activist</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nauru : Nauru | nswals : New South Wales | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | pacisz : Pacific Islands</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document NEHR000020150819eb8j0001i</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020150818eb8j00027" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Australia can be more generous to refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>882 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>B004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia can be more generous to refugees</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</span> Antonio Guterres.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">S</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">o you think we're mean- spirited to migrants? Think again. There is a cunning sleight of hand used by those who seek to denigrate us," former immigration minister Amanda Vanstone wrote in The Canberra Times this week ("We are not mean-spirited", Times2, August 17, p4). "They say that there are millions of <b>asylum</b> seekers around the world and countries that hundreds of thousands enter every year. They go on to say that the proportion we take is tiny in comparison. That's the biggest hoodwink there ever was. Actually, that's beating around the bush - it's a con and a great big fat lie." According to statistics compiled by the <span class="companylink">UN High Commissioner for Refugees</span>, there were 59.5 million displaced people worldwide at the end of 2014. During that year, the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> reports, Australia received 8960 new <b>asylum</b> applications and resettled 11,570 refugees. Taken together, this amounts to 20,530 people. With all due respect, Amanda Vanstone, that is indeed a tiny proportion of 59.5 million. In one respect, Vanstone is correct: Australia resettles a large proportion of the refugees who are resettled under the auspices of the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>. Last year, Australia took more than a 10th of these refugees, making it the third-largest</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">contributor behind the United States (which resettled about 70 per cent of the total) and Canada. But resettlement is offered to only a small fraction of the world's displaced people: in 2014, a total of 105,197 places in 26 countries. It is important to put Australia's contribution in a global context. So here's another set of numbers. The greatest number of "<b>boat</b> people" to arrive in Australia in any one year - 20,587 individuals - came in 2013. How does this number compare internationally? Last month alone, more than 50,000 irregular migrants, many if not most of them refugees, arrived in Greece, a country with less than half of Australia's population which is, as we all know, in dire economic straits. Last year, 28,000 new <b>asylum</b> applications were made in Austria, a country with just over a third of Australia's population. And</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sweden, whose population is just over 40 per cent of Australia's, dealt with some 75,000 new <b>asylum</b> applications. Like most European countries, Sweden and Austria are on track to receive a larger number of <b>asylum</b> seekers this year. (Incidentally, Sweden's contribution to the 2015 <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> budget is more than three times that of Australia.) Global displacement requires a global response. Ideally, of course, such a response would tackle the root causes of displacement. In the meantime, it is important that countries around the world share the burden of accommodating displaced people. Currently, a small number of countries that are significantly poorer than Australia - Turkey, Pakistan, Jordan, Lebanon, Iran, Ethiopia - are accommodating almost half of the world's <b>refugee</b> population.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Clearly, affluent countries, such as Australia and Sweden, should play a bigger, indeed leading role in resettling refugees and in accommodating <b>asylum</b> seekers. Is the problem just too big, though? Antnio Guterres, the <span class="companylink">UN High Commissioner for Refugees</span>, says that we are witnessing "an unchecked slide into an era in which the scale of global forced displacement as well as the response required is now clearly dwarfing anything seen before". But that is misleading. In proportion to the global population, displacement was worse during and in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. In the second half of the 1940s, too, the number of displaced people who were offered permanent resettlement places by the IRO, the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>'s</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">predecessor, was small in comparison to the overall number of displaced people. Only Europeans qualified. Palestinians; Chinese fleeing to Hong Kong; Bengalis displaced by the partition of India - none of these were offered places. Yet the IRO organised the resettlement of more people a year in the late 1940s and early 1950s than the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> does now. In 1949 alone, Australia resettled more than 75,000 people through the IRO. At the time, Australia had a population of just over 7 million, or less than a third of its current population, and was in the midst of a severe housing shortage. So is Vanstone right after all? Has Australia - in the long run - been one of the most generous nations in the world? Citing the 1949 statistics in support of such a claim would be tantamount, to use Vanstone's words, to peddling the false comparison. Australia resettled DPs because it wanted immigrants, and the fact that many of these immigrants happened to be refugees was incidental. Now, Australia has the opportunity to be generous. It has the capacity to boost its resettlement intake and substantially increase its financial contribution to the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>. And, we should hope, it has the capacity to end the punitive detention of people who have committed no crime other than seeking our protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Klaus Neumann is professor of history at Swinburne University and the author of Across the Seas: Australia's Response to Refugees. On Thursday, he will be talking about his book at Paperchain Bookstore in Manuka.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>unhcr : United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | utdnat : United Nations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020150818eb8j00027</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020150816eb8h0000v" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>We are not mean-spirited</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1210 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 August 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>B004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are not mean-spirited</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia takes a huge number of refugees for permanent resettlement.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">D</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ouble standards irk. Having had years as immigration minister in the Howard government, I had the constant experience of a media that was hell- bent on checking every single thing you said as if they were certain you were out to mislead them. They would argue that the media has a vital role in checking on the government, keeping it honest - and they'd be right. But there's a catch. For that to work and the media to be the champions that effectively protect our democratic system, they have to be honest themselves. That means, most certainly, checking on the government. But the government is just one part of the political system, so the media have an equally important role in ensuring the public get the truth about it all. Is this or that allegation about the government true? If it is, go for it, boots and all. That requires checking on the veracity of all participants' rumblings, including those of the media. As immigration minister before the 2004 election, I can assure you that tremendous effort was put into getting children of <b>boat</b> arrivals out of detention centres. If my memory serves me well, we had at that time just one child in a detention centre, and that was because the new mother wanted to stay to have the father, mother and baby bonding experience. All the others, and we are talking hundreds, were technically in detention but in residential housing projects or other more child and family friendly arrangements. Then when Labor came to office, as predicted, their policy change had an impact. The boats started coming again, women and children</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">died, and we ended up with thousands in detention centres. The Human Rights Commission can use whatever weasel words it wants to cover "going doggo", but the fact it did is inescapable. Many in the media, sucked into the "Labor is more compassionate" line, must have felt let down and trapped in that lie when reality bit. But when you have put tremendous effort into stopping the boats, when people were no longer losing their lives and kids were not in detention centres, it was more than disheartening to see so many in the media go soft on a government that restarted the tragedy. I think some went soft on the Human Rights Commission as well. Don't think that all the media were duped just by Labor. There were plenty of journos only too happy to run any anti-Howard line they could get or manufacture. One favourite claim splashed about by <b>refugee</b> advocates, the Greens and that ilk, was that under Howard, Australia was just a mean- spirited country. Our <b>refugee</b> intake was constantly rubbished as being puny compared to those of</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">other countries. This is no minor point. It goes to the very heart of who we are. Right down into our national psyche. As I said then and have kept saying, "We are an immigration country. Unless you are a full-blood Indigenous Australian, you've got migrant blood in your veins. The only difference is one of timing; how many months or years ago did your mum or granny arrive?" As an immigration country, one would expect us to understand and make space for others to build a better life. We would be two-faced and mean-spirited if we didn't. The point is, Australia has for ages been in the top three takers of refugees for permanent resettlement. But so many in the media would do anything but admit that. So our kids see on the internet all the anti-Howard and now anti- Abbott immigration stories - almost nothing but stories about our meanness. The most recent one to strike me was about a young woman who unsuccessfully applied for <b>asylum</b> (read: got a fair hearing), who we educated while the process was followed, who wanted to stay</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">anyway, refused to go and was shifted to Darwin pending removal. One article I read focused on her being dragged - which is likely to happen if you refuse to follow a law enforcement officer's instruction to move. But it seems we are mean because we don't fully educate her and let her stay; even though she has had a fair go, we are the meanies. The problem with that characterisation is that we are, whichever way you cut the figures, anything but mean. We open our arms and our hearts and say welcome. We open our wallets and shell out for housing, health and education. It's no accident that we, the United States and Canada are the top three in generosity to migrants. After all, we are the top three immigration countries. We are up there in the top three for generosity and yet we teach our kids to deny it. I think it's criminal to deprive our kids of the opportunity to recognise the good we do and to be proud of their country. There's a cunning sleight of hand used by those who seek to</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">denigrate us. They say that there are millions of <b>asylum</b> seekers around the world and countries that hundreds of thousands enter every year. That is undeniably true. They go on to say that the proportion we take is tiny in comparison. That's the biggest hoodwink there ever was. Actually, that's beating around the bush - it's a con and a great big fat lie. Why is is that so many of our media are happy to peddle the false comparison, the big lie? And because they run it themselves they are trapped - they can't do their job and call out others who similarly lie to the public. One situation is where refugees stream across borders, set up tent camps and eke out an existence with such help as the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> can provide. They are literally camping in another country. The "host" nation is not necessarily welcoming of the unavoidable tragedy on their doorstep. Our situation is that we are one of just a few countries that actually make a space in their immigration program for refugees. We work with the <span class="companylink">UN</span> and take them - yes, of course from our region. But with <span class="companylink">UN</span> advice we also help out when there are "hotspots" such as Bosnia or Sudan. We have a proper and thus expensive program to help people settle in. So the <span class="companylink">UN</span> comparison of countries with permanent resettlement is the true comparison. I had always used flat numbers, and in that we come either second or third. Minister Peter Dutton has had a fresh look and when you do a fairer comparison, say refugees for permanent resettlement per head of population or relating to GDP, it turns out we are the most generous nation in the world. Yes, that's right, we are No.1. Shouldn't every Australian be proud of that? Well, they would be if they knew it, but good luck trying to get the commentators in this field to tell them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amanda Vanstone is a Fairfax columnist and was a minister in the Howard government.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has vowed that if he is re-elected today, Sri Lanka will remain non-aligned, open to all foreign investment and committed to “securing maritime sea routes in the Indian Ocean” for all shipping.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His message, in an interview with The Australian, will be welcomed by regional neighbours India and Japan, as well as the US, which viewed with concern former president and now prime-ministerial hopeful Mahinda Rajapaksa’s close alignment with Beijing.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The three-time Prime Minister, who formed a minority nat­ional coalition government with President Maithripala Sirisena after the former health minister defeated Mr Rajapaksa in polls in January, also reiterated assurances there would be no resumption of <b>asylum</b> boats leaving Sri Lanka’s coast under his United National Front for Good ­Governance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I can’t see any <b>boat</b> movement in future. Our politicians are not in the <b>boat</b> business,” he said at his Temple Trees residence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The UNFGG of Mr Wickremesinghe is tipped to be returned to power in today’s parliamentary poll, although it is unclear whether it will secure enough of a majority to prevent a Rajapaksa bloc from stymieing his reform agenda, which includes a new constitution, reconciling the Tamil north and east with the rest of the country and stamping out graft.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said several major Chinese projects signed under the former government would go ahead after they were suspended pending corruption probes, albeit with renegotiated terms to ensure “our sovereignty is not compromised”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Beijing has already invested billions in Sri Lanka as part of its plans to build a Maritime Silk Route to the Middle East and Europe, though some fear it will used by the military.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister dismissed those suspicions: “We have no military deals with China. Everyone else is free to give us concessional loans and to come and invest here. It is for them to give more than China.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Submarines have been docking in Sri Lanka from the time of World War II. “It’s a question of how we control it and being sensitive to the needs of everyone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There will be submarines from different countries at different times. We have one policy on this. We must have naval exchanges.” Mr Wickremesinghe said China’s navy posed no “serious competition” in the Indian Ocean to the more experienced fleets of the US, Australia and Japan, and did not rule out Sri Lankan involvement in regional multilateral naval exercises in the future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We will be looking at securing the maritime sea routes in the Indian Ocean so that all shipping can use it,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We want to ensure the shipping routes are ­secure. That’s our lifeblood.” His comments on Indian Ocean freedom of navigation and <b>asylum</b> boats will be welcomed by Canberra, whose relationship with Colombo dipped following Mr Rajapaksa’s defeat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Wickremesinghe has previously accused the Abbott government of turning a blind eye to human rights abuses committed under the previous government in exchange for co-operation on stopping <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats from heading to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He told The Australian in February “people connected to the previous government” were involved in people smuggling operations, “but once this deal was done between Australia and the Rajapksa government where you looked the other way (on human rights abuses) then secretary of defence got the navy to patrol”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Queensland senator James McGrath — a former deputy director of the liberal party and an adviser to the opposition UNP during the 2010 Sri Lankan presidential election — said a Wickremesinghe-led government would be good news for Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“My personal view is it is better for Australia to have a UNP government in power in Sri Lanka than the Rajapaksas, who are driven only by how deep they can line their own pockets,” Mr McGrath said yesterday.“I thought the Rajapaksa government was a bad government for Sri Lankan and the relationship between Australia and Sri Lanka can only improve with the election of Ranil as PM.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Three life stories from a burgeoning global <b>refugee</b> crisis</span>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost 60 million people - half of them children - were forcibly evicted from their homes last year. In the second part of a two-part series, Fairfax correspondents Philip Wen, Jewel Topsfield and Nick O Malley look at why people risk everything for the chance of a better life.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'Australians should know why we are escaping' Afghanistan to Indonesia</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Khadim Dai has met Oscar-winning filmmakers and Indonesian politicians. He was a panellist on the SBS show Insight and has been offered a scholarship to study fine arts at <span class="companylink">Monash University</span> in Melbourne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But his success is bittersweet. Although the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> has awarded him <b>refugee</b> status, he has been waiting for more than two years for a country to offer him a home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Journalists often visit the mountainous town of Cisarua where Khadim lives, a hub for thousands of <b>asylum</b> seekers stuck in transit in Indonesia. But Khadim became a citizen journalist because he didn't recognise himself in their reporting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I was waiting for someone to come to film me and my friends," he says. "But the media were only showing a poor face, a desperate face. I was feeling a kind of shame because we have very extraordinary people in our community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I had to do something to raise my voice and my room-mates' voices. Australians should know why we are escaping, why I am living so far from my parents. They should know."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And so Khadim, now 19, used his smartphone to capture his and his fellow refugees' reality. In a stripey orange house on the side of a hill, Khadim and his three flatmates bake naan bread and make fruit smoothies. They play the dambora, an Afghan instrument, recreated out of old motorcycle helmets. And they watch Hazara <b>refugee</b> football league games, held at 3pm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Nobody knows where they will end up," Khadim observes. But the video footage is touching precisely because it is so unsentimental. "I tried to show how important it is to share things among refugees and how important tiny bits of happiness are in their lives."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Khadim was born in 1996 in Afghanistan's Ghazni province. It was the year the Sunni Islamists of the Taliban took over Kabul, marking the beginning of another wave of repression against the Hazara, a mainly Shiite ethnic minority persecuted for centuries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Khadim's family fled to Quetta in Pakistan. He became a national karate champion in Pakistan, but nonetheless found life there "like living in a prison".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On February 16, 2013, a bomb exploded at a market in the outskirts of Quetta, near Khadim's school. It was the second major attack against Hazaras in a month. "I lost my friends ... my classmate. That's when I decided to leave."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Khadim hoped to join his sister and brother, who were in Australia. He stitched the phone number of a friend in Cisarua into his underpants and paid people smugglers $US7000 to get him to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his first two months in Indonesia, Khadim made four attempts to reach Australia on a <b>boat</b>. The date of the fourth - and final - attempt is seared in his memory: July 19, 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was in the back of an ice cream truck, en route to a beach. His sister phoned him from Australia: she was watching the prime minister on television. "She said: 'Don't come, because they just changed the policy right now and if you arrive here safely, they will send you to an isolated island."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He dropped out of the back of the ice cream van and began a new life in Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was introduced to Australian filmmaker Jolyon Hoff. The two started a documentary project, Who are we anyway? Khadim's videos, posted on social media, have been shared thousands of times. The Heart of Our Community features <b>refugee</b> women experimenting with new ways of living in a less conservative country. The <b>Refugee</b> Learning Centre tells of the Cisarua community's efforts to educate <b>refugee</b> children not permitted to attend school in Indonesia, in a facility that Khadim Dai co-founded.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Establishing the centre was fraught because people smugglers had spread "propaganda" that teaching and learning were forbidden. "They were trying to ruin the life of refugees and take advantage of that," Khadim says. "We tried to share the message [that] we have to do something to give kids an education."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The cramped learning centre now has more than 100 students. Its walls are covered with an unsettling mixture of the familiar and the haunting. There are photos of David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo next to a dove speckled with blood and slain Hazara leader Abdul Ali Mazari.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Khadim is frowning. An Australian donated $8000 for rent this year but "I have a concern about losing this place because the parents can't afford to pay at all."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year, Khadim's film, Life as a Hazara <b>Refugee</b>, won an Honourable Mention in the international PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It should have been a thrilling moment. "I was not very excited," Khadim says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I will be excited when I get to a peaceful place where I can continue my education."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jewel Topsfield</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One foot in the grave and one foot on the street El Salvador to the US</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The river to me was like this," says six-year-old Daniel, drawing a line high across his chest. "But for my cousin it was here," he says, suggesting a waterline above his head.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Daniel made the journey across the Rio Grande, the river that forms part of the Mexico-United States border, from San Rafael, his family's village in El Salvador, with two cousins, a nine-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The older boy had made the trip before - 2300 kilometres to the US border. He fished Daniel from the Rio Grande when the homemade raft they made the crossing on capsized. He waded onto American soil with a child on each hip, part of an exodus of unaccompanied minors fleeing gang violence in Central America for an unknown future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The surge of children crossing the US-Mexico border alone first began making news last northern summer. In 2014, 28,579 turned themselves in or were caught by border guards. This summer has seen another surge, though so far not to such extremes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s, when the US backed a right-wing junta, thousands of Salvadorans made a temporary home in American cities including Los Angeles. There many of the young men formed street gangs to protect themselves.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the war ended they took those gangs home with them. El Salvador has the highest murder rate of a nation not in war. In June alone, 700 people were killed by the gangs, which today are increasingly involved in people smuggling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a neat business model, says Armando Trull, a senior reporter with public radio station WAMU: extorting people until they want to leave, then smuggling them out. He says rumours that children were being given carte blanche once they crossed the border were spread by the gangs themselves.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Daniel's father left four years ago, planning to make a life in the US and then send for his family. The San Rafael gang knew he was gone and increased their demands, known as a "war tax", accordingly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The gang sent letters telling us we have days or weeks to give them money, from $500 to $1000," says Reyna, Daniel's mother.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She left Daniel with his grandmother and made the trip 2½ years ago. Like Daniel, she was picked up at the border and held in a facility known as "the cooler," near McAllen in Texas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Six months ago, it was Daniel's turn. The teenager and the two children left San Rafael with some money and a mobile phone so they could call Reyna each day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She lived for those calls. Leaving Daniel in San Rafael was not an option. He would be a victim of the gangs until he was old enough to be press-ganged by them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The trio caught a bus to San Salvador and another to the border with Guatemala. From there they caught a bus known as the Condor to the border with Mexico, which has become the first serious hurdle on the route north.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The journey through Mexico consists of dodging local authorities on buses until they reach the northern states, which are more heavily policed and more jealously controlled by drug gangs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From there, they journey on foot. Reyna remembers travelling with two others, sleeping in fields, each of them taking turns to stand guard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was here that another of her cousins was shot running from gangsters. He is now in hospital in Mexico Cityand will be deported when he recovers, she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After seven days on the road, the children reached Reynosa and made their crossing. I met Reyna and Daniel at a charity organisation helping with the children of "the surge". Reyna weeps when she tells of being reunited with Daniel at LaGuardia Airport after he was detained. In a photo she took that day he has a huge gap-toothed grin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By this stage Daniel has lost interest in our conversation and fled to the playground. Our translator tells me that when he arrived six months ago he was utterly silent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Reyna and Daniel, and his father, join an estimated 11 million undocumented Latino immigrants in the US. Under US law Daniel can stay with his family until his immigration case is heard. Reyna has been waiting for her own court dates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Daniel is safe and happy now. He is enjoying school and his English is blossoming. But there is no knowing when all this might be swept away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Reyna is adamant that this is better than the alternative: "Over there, the gangs, you can't even look at them the wrong way. That would mean that you have one foot in the grave and one foot on the street."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nick O'Malley</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Frost, torchlight ... and freedom N Korea to S Korea</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having crouched in darkness on the side of a mountain for five hours, Pak Sol-hwa* decides finally to take a few tentative steps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The North Korean soldiers patrolling the Chinese border, she reasons, have likely dozed off.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the melting frost crunches loudly under her feet. A torchlight flashes in her direction from afar.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pak decides the quietest way to proceed is to drag herself forward with her arms, in a commando crawl.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another hour passes before she reaches the narrow, icy Tumen River, which winds around the northern tip of North Korea. Cross it and she will be in mainland China. Get caught and the consequences for her and her family will be unthinkable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The water was this deep," Pak says, raising her index finger to her nose. "There was ice floating on the water and the currents were strong ... I was trying not to get washed away."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Growing up in a country cut off from the rest of the world never stopped Pak from dreaming big. Her early memories were of azaleas and apricots and the pride in learning that her hometown, Hoeryong, was also the birthplace of the first wife of Great Leader Kim Il-sung, the grandfather of leader Kim Jong-un.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her hopes of a university education drove Pak to sell cereals and medicinal herbs. But travelling for her fledgling business opened her eyes to the widespread suffering of her people, wildly at odds with the utopia her schoolbooks described.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While there is thought to have been a gradual improvement in the North Korean economy in the past decade, a severe drought this year has ravaged crops to the worst extent since the famines of the 1990s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"In my hometown, people don't have money but they grow grains so at least we have some food. But in some cities even when people die of starvation, there is no place to bury the bodies."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Any money she made was frittered away to officials demanding bribes or soldiers who directly stole from her.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Looking at my future, all I could see was a life of such isolation," Pak says. "I had dreams of a life that is free, and of studying hard; that's why I defected."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was April last year when Pak crossed the Tumen - but that was just the beginning of a fraught journey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">China routinely repatriates North Korean defectors, labelling them economic migrants. This directly contravenes United Nations <b>refugee</b> conventions, given defectors face imprisonment and torture if returned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Christian missionaries, brokers and mainland mercenaries operate a series of safe houses that help defectors cross mainland China to the south-western province of Yunnan and its porous border with Laos and Myanmar. Defectors make it from there to Thailand, where they apply to be resettled in South Korea. Pak landed at Seoul's Incheon Airport in June last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The number of defectors who make it have fallen sharply since Kim Jong-un took power in 2012, with security beefed up on both sides of the border. Numbers have halved from a peak of nearly 3000 in 2009.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The biggest obstacle to defection is fear," says Sokeel Park, the research director for Liberty in North Korea. "North Koreans trying to make it to South Korea know that they are putting their lives on the line because not only do they have to successfully cross the border but they also have to make it out of China without getting caught and sent back."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Defectors are put through rigorous security screenings in South Korea and spend time in Hanawon, a de-pressurisation chamber of sorts aimed at preparing them for life in their new surrounds. This program ranges from how to use the subway and pay rent and bills to issues much harder to reconcile, including the likelihood of never seeing loved ones back home again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The most difficult part, like all other defectors, is that I miss my hometown very much," Pak says. "I miss my family, relatives, and friends."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Adjusting has been harder than she imagined but she is learning English and applying to study political science.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There are many outstanding politicians in South Korea but it will be good for a united Korea if there are some 'new settler' politicians who understand both North and South," she says. Having risked her life, Pak is once again dreaming big. After all, she adds with a grin, "[South Korean President] Park Geun-hye is a woman".</p>
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